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 to Generate a Request in Shopify?
When you generate requests, they are time based. They are absolutely time based. And it will guarantee that no two services or two requests will get the same unique ID. You can do that, but you have to serialize them, right? And it becomes a bottleneck. So they still want to use the UID, but they will use the UL ID, which has a timestamp base.
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