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System Design Interview - Chapter 7 - Design a Unique ID Generator in Distributed Systems

System Design Interview - Chapter 7 - Design a Unique ID Generator in Distributed Systems

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Generating unique ID seems to be a simple task, but it is not in a high-load distributed systems! This topic consists of: Understanding the requirements and why it is a complicated task Possible solutions: Multi-master replication Universally unique identifier (UUID) Ticket server Twitter SNOWFLAKE approach (seems to be the best one!) Details: Timestamp Sequence number Other issues Clock synchronization Section length tuning High availability These items are disclosed in a very interesting Chapter 7 of the book: