Sharding and IDs at Instagram (instagram-engineering.tumblr.com)
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dpeck May 22, 2014 | on: On Primary Keys | context

Instagram had a nice post on how they did their PK generation/sharding a couple years back. Still a good read, http://instagram-engineering.tumblr.com/post/10853187575/sha....

Previously discuss here, http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3058327

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