DevBlog: Recent postsFlickr development team talks nerdy.Ticket Servers: Distributed Unique Primary Keys on the CheapPosted by kellan on February 8 2010
This 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 core to topics we’ll be talking about later, like sharding and master-master. Ticket servers give us globally (Flickr-wide) unique integers to serve as primary [...] Read on
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