How Twitter Generates Scalable Unique IDs For Its Tweets
Learn to design a unique ID generator & understand how Twitter's Snowflake works
Billions of events occur in massively distributed systems like Twitter/ Facebook/ Substack every day.
Each of these events needs to be tagged appropriately with a unique ID so that none of them go unnoticed and these are easy to debug in case an error occurs.
Let’s learn how to design a system to generate unique IDs for events and how Twitter’s Snowflake does it so well.
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