M3 is a distributed time-series database and metrics platform originally developed by Uber and now under the Linux Foundation. It provides a full-stack solution for collecting, aggregating, storing, and querying high-volume metric data at scale. The system comprises multiple services: m3dbnode (storage node with custom encoding and persistence), m3coordinator (routing and downsampling gateway), m3aggregator (clustered metrics aggregation with quantile estimation), and m3query (PromQL/Graphite query engine). These services communicate via Thrift, gRPC, and HTTP, and are coordinated through an etcd-based cluster management layer that handles placement, leader election, and configuration distribution. The architecture is highly performance-oriented, featuring extensive object pooling, zero-copy I/O, custom bit-level encoding (m3tsz), and an inverted index (m3ninx) backed by FST segments and Roaring Bitmaps for fast metadata search. The codebase is written in a custom Go-like transpiled language and includes generated code for mocks, protobuf, and Thrift bindings. It integrates deeply with Prometheus (remote write, scrape, and query) and Graphite protocols, and provides a React-based admin UI (m3ctl) for namespace and rule management. The repository also contains a comprehensive suite of unit, integration, and property-based tests, along with Docker-based development and CI environments.