How to Use Nitro: A Beginner’s Guide to Discord’s Premium Subscription
What’s Discord Nitro all about? What perks does it give, and how can you get it? If you’re looking to expand your Nitro knowledge, you’re…
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Nitro Now Comes with Xbox Game Pass and New Benefits. Welcome to Nitro Rewards.
As we hit Nitro’s 10-year anniversary, we’re launching Nitro Rewards: a brand-new benefits program built with some of the biggest names in gaming. See what’s…
How to Use Nitro: A Beginner’s Guide to Discord’s Premium Subscription
What’s Discord Nitro all about? What perks does it give, and how can you get it? If you’re looking to expand your Nitro knowledge, you’re…
How Discord Automates ScyllaDB Clusters at Scale
You’ve been asked to stand up a brand-new database cluster, meaning a whole day of configuring dozens of nodes, validating replication, wiring up dual-write pipelines……
Stock Up in the New Rust Shop! Enjoy a Discord-Only 20% Sale on Most Items until 5/21
Starting today, you can now browse, purchase, and even gift and wishlist in-game items for Rust directly in Discord! See how it all works, and…
From SSH to REST: A Security-Driven Modernization of Slack’s EMR Data Pipelines
Excerpt By 2024, Slack’s data platform had accumulated 700+ SSH-based operators orchestrating critical data pipelines. We’re talking daily search indexing that processed terabytes of data,…
Introducing Trusted Remote Execution: Policy-Enforced Scripts for AI Agents and Humans
Today, we’re announcing Trusted Remote Execution (Rex, for short) — an open source scripting runtime where every system operation is authorized by policy. Scripts are…
Discord Patch Notes: May 4, 2026
Check out the finer details of the more technical fixes implemented into Discord recently. This post first appeared on Read More
How Meta Is Strengthening End-to-End Encrypted Backups
The HSM-based Backup Key Vault Meta’s HSM-based Backup Key Vault provides the foundation for end-to-end encrypted backups for WhatsApp and Messenger. The system allows people…
You’ve Got (Too Much) Mail: Behind the Scenes of the 3/25/26 Voice Outage
On March 25th, voice and video on Discord suffered major degradation beginning at 12:13 PDT, lasting a little over three hours. Learn how the issue…
Measure Less to Learn More: Using Fewer, Higher-quality Metrics to Capture What Matters
Too many experiment metrics can make meaningful changes harder to detect. Learn how Discord used simulations and Principal Component Analysis to maximize signal and reduce…
Decoupling Authorization at Scale: MongoDB Atlas and Cedar-Based Resource Policies
As organizations scale applications, managing authorization becomes increasingly complex. What starts as role-based permissions quickly evolves into intricate rules spanning multiple services, regions, and compliance…
Deploying cloud-based engineering workbenches with the Virtual Engineering Workbench on AWS
Introduction Organizations in automotive, manufacturing, and embedded systems increasingly rely on cloud-based development environments to reduce hardware dependency and accelerate software delivery. As vehicle architectures…
Modernizing the Facebook Groups Search to Unlock the Power of Community Knowledge
We’ve fundamentally transformed Facebook Groups Search to help people more reliably discover, sort through, and validate community content that’s most relevant to them. We’ve adopted…
Capacity Efficiency at Meta: How Unified AI Agents Optimize Performance at Hyperscale
We’re sharing insights into Meta’s Capacity Efficiency Program, where we’ve built an AI agent platform that helps automate finding and fixing performance issues throughout our…