Engineering & Design

In-depth analysis and thought process on engineering and design challenges.

Building open-source design tools to improve Discord’s design workflow

How Discord Implemented App-Wide Keyboard Navigation

How Discord Made Android In-App Navigation Easier

Why Discord is switching from Go to Rust

How Discord achieves native iOS performance with React Native

Light Theme, Redeemed

Investigating Discord’s React Memory Leak

Using Rust to Scale Elixir for 11 Million Concurrent Users

Redesigning the Discord Overlay

How Discord Handles Two and Half Million Concurrent Voice Users using WebRTC

How Discord Maintains Performance While Adding Features

Why Discord is Sticking with React Native

How Discord Renders Rich Messages on the Android App

Why Reactiflux, Vue Land, Yarn, and other open source communities use Discord