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page onTicket Servers: Distributed Unique Primary Keys on the CheapThis is the first post in the Using, Abusing and Scaling MySQL at Flickr series. Ticket servers aren’t inherently interesting, but they’re an important building block at Flickr. They are…
Ticket Servers: Distributed Unique Primary Keys on the Cheap
How Flickr keeps numeric IDs unique across multiple databases