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I haven't seen anyone mention video games/entertainment companies. LA is quite good if you're into those industries. I never really looked, but my gut says it has the highest concentration of video game companies.

As far as the vibe goes, it's nothing like the bay when it comes to tech. LA is way more laid back and people are much less focused on tech. In the bay I constantly overheard people talking about tech or overheard people talking about VC/startups. Rarely ever in LA. The bay is really intense in that way.

I lived in Seattle too. As far as tech scene/startups obsession goes, it was Bay > Seattle >> LA.

With that said, there's a decent community. It's easy to find meetups, etc.

Thanks Kagi team. It's really cool to see a search engine change in positive ways!

It gave Musk more time to destroy Twitter.

Me too. I wrote one of the more popular script packs for AutoRune. Looking back AutoRune had a pretty cool event based language. I was a noobie to programming so I didn't really understand at the time.

Ah yeah, just tested it and it says "IF APPLICABLE, WOULD YOU BE WILLING TO RELOCATE TO DISCORD'S SF HQ? WHILE DISCORD IS EMBRACING A HYBRID REMOTE APPROACH GOING FORWARD, SOME ROLES WILL REMAIN HQ-BASED."

It is not applicable for that role. It is not applicable for most (maybe all) engineering roles.

That's weird. Do you have a link to the job posting?

This isn't true anymore. We switched to allowing and supporting permanent remote work (writing this from Seattle).

We've moved quite a few datasets from Cassandra to Scylla, but not messages. I think we're planning to make a blog post about our experience with Scylla at some point.

Kind of weird that California is tied for 3rd on the list but they make it a point to say people are "fleeing" California before mentioning the other top 3.

rsc said they made some big improvements for this particular type of problem. I'm not sure which version of go the improvements landed in.

Elixir is without a doubt still one of the core languages. We try to use the right tool for the job and Elixir is the right tool for parts of our system.

We also combo Elixir NIFs and rust to speed up parts of the Elixir services https://blog.discord.com/using-rust-to-scale-elixir-for-11-m...

Original author here. Cool to see it posted again.

We're still using and investing in rust at Discord. For example, in the past year we successfully pulled part of the core messaging system out of python and into a rust service. Rust has been a boon for developer productivity and correctness of code.

We've also been very happy with the way the rust ecosystem is evolving and the amount of adoption the language has seen.

I'm happy to answer questions here.

P.S. We're still growing and hiring (including remotely). You can find my email in my profile.

We are hiring at Discord https://discordapp.com/jobs

No worries, we could have mentioned that in the post as part of the service history :)

Also worth noting: Most requests to the service have to update many Read States. For instance, when you @everyone in the Minecraft server we have to update over 500,000 Read States.

We originally cached this data with a Redis cluster but we hit scaling issues. The Read States service only exists because Redis had issues.

Discord | Senior Engineers | San Francisco | ONSITE

Discord is building a platform dedicated to connecting people through games. We grew from 45 million to 150 million users in the last year. We have over 20 million daily active users and that number is growing every day. Discord is just 3 years old.

We're hiring senior engineers in the key roles of backend, native, data science, and data infrastructure. Join an amazing team solving interesting scaling problems and creating next generation features. https://discordapp.com/jobs

Tech: Rust, Elixir/Erlang, React, Javascript, Python, Go, C++, Cassandra, GCP

Engineering blog: https://blog.discordapp.com/tagged/engineering

Feel free to message us directly at [email protected].

Discord | Senior Engineers | San Francisco | ONSITE

Discord is building a platform dedicated to connecting people through games. We grew from 45 million to 130 million users in the last year. We have over 19 million daily active users and that number is growing every day. Discord is just 3 years old.

We're hiring senior engineers in the key roles of native, front-end, data science, and data infrastructure. Join an amazing team solving interesting scaling problems and creating next generation features.

https://discordapp.com/jobs

Tech: Elixir/Erlang, React, Javascript, Python, Go, C++, Cassandra, GCP

Engineering blog: https://blog.discordapp.com/tagged/engineering

Feel free to message us directly at [email protected].

Discord | Senior Engineers | San Francisco | ONSITE

Discord is building a platform dedicated to connecting people through games. We grew from 90 million to 130 million users in the last year. We have over 19 million daily active users and 8 million peak concurrent users. Those number are growing every day. Discord is just 3 years old.

We're hiring senior engineers in the key roles of fullstack, backend, and data infrastructure as well as senior data scientists to join our data team. Join an amazing team solving interesting scaling problems and creating next generation features.

https://discordapp.com/jobs

Tech: Elixir/Erlang, React, Javascript, Python, Go, C++, Cassandra, GCP

Engineering blog: https://blog.discordapp.com/tagged/engineering

Feel free to message me directly at the email in my profile.

Discord | Senior Engineers | San Francisco | ONSITE

Discord is building a platform dedicated to connecting people through games. We grew from 45 million to 90 million users in the last 6 months. We have over 14 million daily active users and that number is growing every day. Discord is just 2.5 years old.

We're hiring senior engineers in the key roles of fullstack, backend, and data infrastructure. Join an amazing team solving interesting scaling problems and creating next generation features.

https://discordapp.com/jobs

Tech: Elixir/Erlang, React, Javascript, Python, Go, C++, Cassandra, GCP

Engineering blog: https://blog.discordapp.com/tagged/engineering

Feel free to message me directly at the email in my profile.