Generating unique IDs in a Large scale Distributed environment
Introduction
Recently at work, We were looking for a way to generate unique IDs across a distributed system that could also be used as the primary keys in the MySQL tables.
We knew in a single MySQL database we can simply use an auto-increment ID as ...
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Rob Janssen
Software engineer at KeenSystems, moderator & mediator @GoT and proud father of two great sons. Pretty much all-round developer.
Nice writeup! You may be interested in IdGen , a C# implementation of this. Disclaimer: author here.