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Discord Engineering·Mar 4, 2026·1 min read32

Tracing Discord's Elixir Systems (Without Melting Everything)

Join Senior Software Engineer Nick Krichevsky as he explains how Discord added distributed tracing to Elixir's message passing and optimized it to handle millions of concurrent users.

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