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baq • yesterday at 7:03 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

It’s much easier if you can simply not coordinate. Bonus points if that doesn’t mean you need an atomic clock in your rack


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mahboi • yesterday at 7:06 PM

If you're designing a distributed DB, sure. If you're using something, you do whatever it wants. Spanner recommends random keys. Citus uses serial.