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Re:First American Financial Corp. Leaked Hundreds of Million... by asaph on Friday May 24, 2019 @09:20PM (#20006564)
> For instance, it's convenient to generate identifiers in a decentralized manner.

For an elegant solution to this problem, check out Twitter's Snowflake[0].

[0] https://blog.twitter.com/engineering/en_us/a/2010/announcing...

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Re:First American Financial Corp. Leaked Hundreds of Million... by chaz6 on Saturday May 25, 2019 @07:42AM (#20008445)
I always wondered why databases have not implemented a scheme like Microsoft's Active Directory RID master FSMO role. One server is responsible for handing out chunks of ID's to each server. They request a new block whenever a threshold is reached (50% by default IIRC).
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Re:First American Financial Corp. Leaked Hundreds of Million... by sorokod on Saturday May 25, 2019 @06:28AM (#20008183)
Some coordination there courtesy of Zookeeper.
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