System Design Interview: Scalable Unique ID Generator (Twitter Snowflake or a similar service)
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Generating unique IDs is a popular task involved in the development of most large scale applications. Unique IDs help identify objects and retrieve them when needed. But how can you create random IDs that are unique even when the system works on a distributed environment where multiple computing nodes are involved? Twitter Snowflake is an ideal example of a high-scale random ID generator, designed to work on a global scale. Let’s learn how to design a similar random ID generator.
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