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Re:Google pub/sub released an ordering feature by bgdam on Friday October 02, 2020 @03:31AM (#24660013)
Creating ever increasing ids reliably at scale is not trivial. You will probably end up having a single server generating these ids which will then become a single point of failure.
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Re:Google pub/sub released an ordering feature by caturopath on Friday October 02, 2020 @11:53AM (#24663879)
(Or a distributed system - this is no trickier to migrate away from SPOF than anything else with global state.)
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