Solved Fly io’s second distributed systems challenge in C
This one was about generating unique IDs during network partitions when nodes can't communicate with each other
this also reminded me of Twitter's Snowflake IDs that I read about a while back. They solve a similar problem but support the creation of thousands of IDs per millisecond per worker
@ShivaGupta4639 Yeah, I’ve heard of iggy. It seems like a neat project
From my experience, Apache projects are nice to contribute to because they’re organized and have a clear progression for external contributors
Solved Fly io's first distributed systems challenge in C
the tutorial uses Go, but I figured this would be a good opportunity to get more comfortable with C