Re:New UUID Formats – IETF Draft
by krinchan on Friday August 06, 2021 @05:13PM
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Twitter snowflakes are unsigned 64-bit ids designed to be created in a distributed fashion.
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Re:New UUID Formats – IETF Draft
by tatersolid on Wednesday August 11, 2021 @10:12PM
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But they require a separate global distributed HA clustered service just for ID generation. This makes no sense from a cost or complexity perspective unless you’re Twitter-scale.