ryansking

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   by ryansking 15y ago

   Works pretty well for us (twitter.com).
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   by ryansking 15y ago

   One nit about snowflake in your article (i'm the author of snowflake)– the zookeeper integration is optional and only used for sanity checking the configuration (that the worker ids are distinct, etc).
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   by ryansking 16y ago

   This wouldn't work for us. We need the ids to sort by time across users, which this wouldn't do.
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   by ryansking 16y ago

   we've been running snowflake for weeks already
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   by ryansking 16y ago

   The twitter api includes string representations of the ids already and we encourage everyone to use those rather than the numeric ones.
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   by ryansking 16y ago

   we don't use incrementing ids, but needed ids that increase over time (so that you can sort tweets by them). hence, snowflake: http://github.com/twitter/snowflake
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   by ryansking 16y ago

   oh and feel free to contact me directly at ryan@twitter.com