We are building a chat server with MongoDB using change streams. We run it in Kubernetes and want it to be able to scale horizontally. We have a couple of clients who wants to use it and it should be able to handle 50k+ users spread across a number of pods.
Currently, each client starts a new change stream that listens in a specific collection for his/her id. When a message is sent to the user, the change stream will find out and forward the message to the user.
I am not sure if this is a great solution and if MongoDB can handle 10k+ change streams per pod…
If not, do you guys have any recommendations on how to improve?
Also, I should mention that our MongoDB database is self-hosted in kubernetes and inside the same cluster as our chat-server.
Thanks.
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