
Stop using Integer ID’s in your Database

The problem is that most companies don’t apply the required forethought to creating the right primary keys to allow data from different channels to be merged.
Avinash Kaushik • Web Analytics 2.0: The Art of Online Accountability and Science of Customer Centricity
(SRE storytime!)
As an SRE at a growth-stage company, you're on call this week. A PagerDuty alert wakes you up. It's related to the main transactional database, so you check immediately.
The inserts to one of the tables in the database are failing. You start investigating 🧵
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