On 12/10/19 12:37 PM, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 11, 2019 at 5:01 AM Tim Daneliuk wrote:
>>
>> On 12/10/19 10:36 AM, Peter Pearson wrote:
>>> Just to be sure: you *are* aware that the "Birthday Paradox" says
>>> that if you pick your 10-digit strings truly randomly, you'll probably
>>> ge
On Wed, Dec 11, 2019 at 5:01 AM Tim Daneliuk wrote:
>
> On 12/10/19 10:36 AM, Peter Pearson wrote:
> > Just to be sure: you *are* aware that the "Birthday Paradox" says
> > that if you pick your 10-digit strings truly randomly, you'll probably
> > get a collision by the time of your 10**5th string
On 12/10/19 10:36 AM, Peter Pearson wrote:
> Just to be sure: you *are* aware that the "Birthday Paradox" says
> that if you pick your 10-digit strings truly randomly, you'll probably
> get a collision by the time of your 10**5th string . . . right?
I did not consider this, but the point is taken.
On Mon, 9 Dec 2019 21:38:43 -0600, Tim Daneliuk wrote:
> On 12/9/19 8:54 PM, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
>> On Mon, 9 Dec 2019 18:52:11 -0600, Tim Daneliuk
>> declaimed the following:
>>
>>> - Each of these services needs to produce a string of ten digits
>>> guaranteed to be unique on a per servic
Tim Daneliuk wrote:
> I ran across a kind of fun problem today that I wanted to run past you
> Gentle Geniuses (tm):
>
> - Imagine an environment in which there may be multiple instances of a
> given
> microservice written in Python.
>
> - Each of these services needs to produce a string of te
On 10/12/2019 03:35, Tim Daneliuk wrote:
On 12/9/19 8:50 PM, Paul Rubin wrote:
Tim Daneliuk writes:
- Imagine an environment in which there may be multiple instances of a given
microservice written in Python.
Decide the maximum number of microservice instances, say 1000. Chop up
the 10 d
On 12/9/19 8:54 PM, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
> On Mon, 9 Dec 2019 18:52:11 -0600, Tim Daneliuk
> declaimed the following:
>
>>
>> - Each of these services needs to produce a string of ten digits guaranteed
>> to be unique
>> on a per service instance basis AND to not collide for - oh, let's say
On 12/9/19 8:50 PM, Paul Rubin wrote:
> Tim Daneliuk writes:
>> - Imagine an environment in which there may be multiple instances of a given
>> microservice written in Python.
>
> Decide the maximum number of microservice instances, say 1000. Chop up
> the 10 digit range into 1000 pieces, so 0
On Tue, 10 Dec 2019 at 12:12, Tim Daneliuk wrote:
> - Each of these services needs to produce a string of ten digits
> guaranteed to be unique
> on a per service instance basis AND to not collide for - oh, let's say -
> forever :)s
>
> Can anyone suggest a randomization method that might achiev
I ran across a kind of fun problem today that I wanted to run past you Gentle
Geniuses (tm):
- Imagine an environment in which there may be multiple instances of a given
microservice written in Python.
- Each of these services needs to produce a string of ten digits guaranteed to
be unique
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