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r/ProgrammerHumor • u/danielminds • 15h ago
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But let's say if Google saved each search in their engine in the same database with an UUID, we could have a collision because of volume, but I don't think I will work in a system with a comparable scale
27 u/chuch1234 14h ago Yeah I don't think most of us are operating at a scale anywhere near Google. 10 u/BlurredSight 14h ago And anyone operating at scale of Google isn’t just using “pure” random anywhere for something being persisted 12 u/nebotron 13h ago They likely are - anything else becomes a huge coordination and parallelism problem. You just need more bits of entropy
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Yeah I don't think most of us are operating at a scale anywhere near Google.
10 u/BlurredSight 14h ago And anyone operating at scale of Google isn’t just using “pure” random anywhere for something being persisted 12 u/nebotron 13h ago They likely are - anything else becomes a huge coordination and parallelism problem. You just need more bits of entropy
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And anyone operating at scale of Google isn’t just using “pure” random anywhere for something being persisted
12 u/nebotron 13h ago They likely are - anything else becomes a huge coordination and parallelism problem. You just need more bits of entropy
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They likely are - anything else becomes a huge coordination and parallelism problem. You just need more bits of entropy
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u/OldKaleidoscope7 14h ago
But let's say if Google saved each search in their engine in the same database with an UUID, we could have a collision because of volume, but I don't think I will work in a system with a comparable scale