The document discusses techniques for storing time series data at scale in a time series database (TSDB). It describes storing 16 bytes of data per sample by compressing timestamps and values. It proposes organizing data into blocks, chunks, and files to handle high churn rates. An index structure uses unique IDs and sorted label mappings to enable efficient queries over millions of time series and billions of samples. Benchmarks show the TSDB can handle over 100,000 samples/second while keeping memory, CPU and disk usage low.