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How Shopify’s engineering improved writes by 50% with ULID | The Backend Engineering Show
How Shopify’s engineering improved writes by 50% with ULID | The Backend Engineering Show
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Length:
32 minutes
Released:
Dec 23, 2022
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Podcast episode
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Shopify posted a blog on tips to for scalable payment system, one tip peeked my interest related to switching from UUID to ULID. I explore the reasoning behind this in this video.
https://shopify.engineering/building-resilient-payment-systems
0:00 Intro
1:30 idempotency
6:30 UUID vs ULID
9:50 Clustered Index
13:30 Why UUID4 Inserts are slow
17:15 How ULID helps Shopify
22:00 Problem with tail pages
25:00 Does ULID help in all cases?
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https://backend.husseinnasser.com
https://database.husseinnasser.com
Shopify posted a blog on tips to for scalable payment system, one tip peeked my interest related to switching from UUID to ULID. I explore the reasoning behind this in this video.
https://shopify.engineering/building-resilient-payment-systems
0:00 Intro
1:30 idempotency
6:30 UUID vs ULID
9:50 Clustered Index
13:30 Why UUID4 Inserts are slow
17:15 How ULID helps Shopify
22:00 Problem with tail pages
25:00 Does ULID help in all cases?
Fundamentals of Backend Engineering Design patterns udemy course (link redirects to udemy with coupon)
https://backend.husseinnasser.com
Released:
Dec 23, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode
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