Sunday, December 23, 2012

Sharding Ids at Instagram


Generate IDs in web application
Generate IDs through dedicated service
  Twitter Snowflake
  DB Ticket Servers
Their Solution
  Uses PostgresSQL Schemas and a time component along with their custom epoch

http://instagram-engineering.tumblr.com/post/10853187575/sharding-ids-at-instagram

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