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Dec 9, 2025 · Backend Development

How Bilibili Scaled Its Private Messaging System to Handle 10× Traffic

This article analyzes Bilibili's private messaging architecture, identifies performance bottlenecks such as MySQL slow queries, storage limits, and tightly coupled services, and presents a multi‑layer redesign with caching, sharding, BFF separation, and consistency mechanisms to sustain tenfold traffic growth.