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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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Why Is MySQL Clustering a Good Idea?

With UUID, unfortunately, short, you are a shortener. The use case is random. And there is absolutely no way I can think of to make it better for read request. It doesn't make sense because hey, we're building an item potency token. Here, URLs, you have no control over that. Someone might request a URL that you have created a year ago, right? And in that case, you're going to pull that page. This is just an understanding of this. I don't think that URL ID will fix everything for you. But yeah, but this is one of the first use cases that I saw that actually takes full advantage of UILID's

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