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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Idempotency Keys - What You Need to Know
Most of the idempotency key requests are sent within a few seconds, right? But what they do here is an idempotencies key needs to be unique for the time. And that's a very critical use case for them. They don't want the request to be retriable infinitely, right? If you send a request in 2018, a payment request in 2018 is not going to live until 2022. It should live within, they estimate a payment request to live within a 24 hour. So typically 24 hours or less.
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