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Go Beyond, Plus Ultra! with the My Hero Academia Collection
Become the hero you want to be with the My Hero Academia Collection, featuring nine Avatar Decorations and three Profile Effects based upon fan-favorite heroes and villains.
What are Apache Iceberg tables? Benefits and challenges | Redpanda
Apache Iceberg tables introduce a reliable framework for querying large datasets in data lakes. Explore their use cases, benefits, and more.
Litestream: Revamped
Litestream is an open-source tool that makes it possible to run many kinds of full-stack applications on top of SQLite by making them reliably recoverable from object storage. This is a post about the biggest change we’ve made to it since I launched it. Nearly a decade ago, I got a bug up my ass. I ...
Implementing FIPS compliance in Redpanda
Redpanda now supports FIPS, so you can run our clusters in secure environments with strict federal security standards for crypto modules.
Launching MCP Servers on Fly.io
This is a blog post. Part showing off. Part opinion. Plan accordingly. The Model Context Protocol is days away from turning six months old. You read that right, six months old. MCP Servers have both taken the world by storm, and still trying to figure out what they want to be when they grow up. Ther...
Introducing the Discord for Business Newsletter, Vol. 1
Exclusive to partners and friends, this newsletter brings you the latest updates on business opportunities within the world of Discord. Read the first issue and sign up for future entries on the Blog!
Thank You for Ten Years
As we celebrate our tenth trip around the sun, let’s see what you and your friends have been up to on Discord over the past decade.
Staff Picks, May 2025: The Games That Brought Us to Discord
It’s Discord’s Birthday today! In this month’s Staff Picks, we’ll hear from Christina, Emi, Jeremy, and Armando about which games introduced them to Discord and the game recs they currently have.
Getting started with Iceberg Topics on Redpanda BYOC
Redpanda’s Iceberg Topics offer fast, simple, cost-efficient Kafka storage in open Iceberg tables—now available in Redpanda Cloud beta for BYOC. Learn more.
Provisioning Machines using MCPs
Today’s state of the art is K8S, Terraform, web based UIs, and CLIs. Those days are numbered. On Monday, I created my first fly volume using an MCP. For those who don’t know what MCPs are, they are how you attach tools to LLMs like Claude or Cursor. I added support for fly volume create to fly mcp s...
A guide to Redpanda on Kubernetes
Learn how to deploy Redpanda in Kubernetes to create a flexible, resilient, and scalable infrastructure that’s ideal for streaming use cases.
STAR WARS™ Makes Its Way to Discord
For this year’s Power of the Force celebrations, we’re hyped to release a brand-new collection of Star Wars themed Avatar Decorations and Profile Effects!
Discord Patch Notes: May 1, 2025
Check out the finer details of the more technical fixes implemented into Discord recently.
Easily turn any gRPC service into an MCP server
Redpanda is simplifying how AI agents and apps interact with our APIs. Meet our latest open-source tool that turns gRPC APIs into MCP servers.
How Discord Indexes Trillions of Messages
Learn how Discord scaled its search infrastructure to index trillions of messages and unlock new features.
Discord Appoints Humam Sakhnini as Chief Executive Officer
Discord names Humam Sakhnini as the company’s new CEO as co-founder Jason Citron remains on the board and transitions to CEO advisor.
Passing the Torch
Read the message sent to Discord employees from CEO Jason Citron sharing his decision to transition out of the role and appoint Humam Sakhnini as the company's new chief executive.
Need for speed: 9 tips to supercharge Redpanda
Redpanda is fast, but to get it running at full speed, you need to make sure you’re optimizing your infrastructure, data architecture, and application design. Here’s how to do it.
Swarm Testing Data Structures
We discovered a cute little pattern the other day when refactoring TigerBeetle’s intrusive queue — using Zig’s comptime reflection for exhaustively testing data structure’s public API. Isn’t it cool when your property test fails when you add a new API, because “public API is tested” is one of the pr...
Worthy of a Plaque: Nameplates Land in the Shop
Today, we’re announcing a brand new way to express yourself: Nameplates. Add a pop of personality to your display name when it’s shown in your favorite chat channels. Read on to see how they work!
Make More Closet Space! Nitro Members Can Now Keep Avatar Decoration Quest Rewards for Longer
With Nitro, your Quest rewards don’t fade—hold onto exclusive decorations long after the adventure ends.
How to Use Discord’s In-Game Overlay to Talk While Playing on PC
Discord’s In-Game Overlay lets you join voice and video calls, see who’s talkin’, and stream your gameplay without ever having to alt-tab out of your current match! Learn how it works and how you can customize it to your liking.
30 Minutes With MCP and flyctl
I wrote this post on our internal message board, and then someone asked, “why is this an internal post and not on our blog”, so now it is. well, Cursor built I built the most basic MCP server for flyctl I could think of. It took 30 minutes. MCP, for those unaware, is the emerging standard protocol f...
Overclocking dbt: Discord's Custom Solution in Processing Petabytes of Data
Explore how Discord supercharged dbt with a tailored solution designed for performance, developer productivity, and data quality.
Wicked Saints Turns Players into IRL Superheroes with the Help of e.l.f. Beauty and Discord
First-of-its-kind gaming platform, World Reborn, launches an 8-week limited run to empower players toward real-life impact through brand-led missions.