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This is a great ground-up solution, but I would consider it far from trivial in practice for Facebook at this point. The current ids have completely permeated
by GICodeWarrior 16y ago
This is a great ground-up solution, but I would consider it far from trivial in practice for Facebook at this point.
The current ids have completely permeated every part of their public APIs and likely every part of their internal systems...
- efsavage 16y agoTrue, I meant trivial in terms of complexity (as opposed to encryption). Implementation/migration would be tricky, but not impossible. Also, anyone who's worked with their APIs before knows not to underestimate Facebook's commitment to the "move fast, break things" mantra.