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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Using UUIDs to Generate Unique IDs
" inserts are always almost causing an IO, right? And guess what? What if the buffer pool fills up?" "You have to flush existing buffer pool pages back to disk. That is a cost that is an expensive thing called checkpointing," he says. 'I don't think exactly check pointing, but it's part of the writing'
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