3 pointsby yakkasean4 hours ago1 comment
  • benoau4 hours ago
    It sounds similar to Twitter's Snowflake?

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowflake_ID

    • yakkasean3 hours ago
      It does look similar. I’m confused though how they coordinate sequence bits with only 2^10 (1024) workers. Surely they have more web servers than that, so sequence must be coordinated in a centralized way. Also, this is a 62 bit spec.