This reminds me of when we were counting collisions in tweet IDs years ago at my old job (social media agency). We used the collision rate to estimate the total volume of tweets going through the system.
We also determined ID assignment was determined by three servers in a round robin load balancer and load was distributed based on modding of a 32 bit integer, so two servers were getting more load than the other since you can’t evenly divide a 32 bit integer by 3. They fixed that bug after a couple months of observation. I forget if we let Twitter know or not.
We also determined ID assignment was determined by three servers in a round robin load balancer and load was distributed based on modding of a 32 bit integer, so two servers were getting more load than the other since you can’t evenly divide a 32 bit integer by 3. They fixed that bug after a couple months of observation. I forget if we let Twitter know or not.
I love stuff like this.