Non-Integer primary keys in Rails
Rails uses auto-incrementing integers as primary keys by default, but there are a lot of good reasons to use non-integer types such as MD5 or UUID in your data model. Auto-incrementing keys are more...
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We’ve been using Cassandra (0.7x) in production for a few months now to store and serve metadata and materialized views for our Crawl Service. This service currently holds data for over 1 million...
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