Thank you for the reply.
The article is a good one. I posed the question on the chance things had evolved since 2012, specifically as it relates to postgres.
> On Aug 10, 2020, at 3:21 PM, Christophe Pettus <xof(at)thebuild(dot)com> wrote:
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>> On Aug 10, 2020, at 15:19, Mark Phillips <mark(dot)phillips(at)mophilly(dot)com> wrote:
>> Advice, cautionary tales, suggestions and such will be warmly received.
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> Here's one solution a company found for this; it seems to work very well:
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> https://instagram-engineering.com/sharding-ids-at-instagram-1cf5a71e5a5c
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