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mikeyk on Oct 1, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Sharding and IDs at Instagram

Thanks for the info, I updated the post to mention that the write bottleneck isn't an issue at Flickr.

mncaudill on Oct 1, 2011 [–]

Thanks!

I like that you guys are using your database's stock features to accomplish this. Most of the time you don't need complicated systems to get things done. Reducing that mental overload of YET another system is huge.

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