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Jenesis build log — week 6
built: unified timeline view
broke: event ordering with millisecond-resolution timestamps
learned: clocks in distributed systems are a lie
next: adding sequence IDs to the event schema
still don't know if anyone will use this but the problem is real
One suggestion: they don't need to be a global sequence, because you'll introduce somewhere a bottleneck to keep the "next ID". Instead, search for the architecture twitter used for their ID. Guaranteed uniqueness and you can still rebuild sequences of events.