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How Shopify’s engineering improved writes by 50% with ULID | The Backend Engineering Show

The Backend Engineering Show with Hussein Nasser

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How Fast Are Reads?

The goal here is all the request that comes in will be nicely ordered. The buffer pool will almost have one or two or three pages, right? And we'll get right to the tail,. So rights are fast. How about reads? Reads are also fast because guess what? If you're gonna read a request, chances that this request you ID that you just generated is just you just generated it. It's a dirty page, right? There's another problem with mutexes and suppose it's an operating system. ULI, these work perfectly for them.

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