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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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