High Availability Architecture

Jan 8, 2021 · Backend Development

Why We Shifted Away from Database-Generated IDs to 64‑Bit Integer IDs

The article explains how decoupling persistence from a specific database engine and moving ID generation to the domain layer using 64‑bit integer identifiers—leveraging the Twitter Snowflake algorithm and the IdGen library—improves scalability, reduces coupling, and avoids the storage overhead of UUIDs.