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Snowflake

... naturally reset back to 0 once it passes the 4096 mark. https://github.com/twitter-archive/snowflake

January 20, 2021

Data Sharding: Twitter Posts

Scenario Let's begin with a Twitter-like service that allows you to tweet new posts. The service has very high read and write traffic , we'll say ~10k read TPS, or transactions-per-second for starters.

December 28, 2021

Authentications

Authentication Authentication means to verify who you are. Basic Auth Sensitive data required for login is encoded with Base64. Base64 is very easy to decode. Not recommended and probably the least secure authentication method, but easy to implement.

February 3, 2021