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Tell me why this UUID pattern is stupid
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yakkasean
4 hours ago
1 comment
benoau
4 hours ago
It sounds similar to Twitter's Snowflake?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowflake_ID
yakkasean
3 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.