Only-kind-of-related: Instagram has a cool post about using ordered IDs to shard photos. It's here: http://instagram-engineering.tumblr.com/post/10853187575/sha

Only-kind-of-related: Instagram has a cool post about using ordered IDs to shard photos. It's here: http://instagram-engineering.tumblr.com/post/10853187575/sharding-ids-at-instagram http://instagram-engineering.tumblr.com/post/10853187575/sha... Pretty cool stuff.