Scaling ID Generation with Redis
java
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It Started with a Simple Counter I work on a cloud-based document management platform used by large construction and engineering firms. Every document uploaded drawings, RFIs, approvals gets an unique ID following a tenant-defined schema: PROJ-9012-1001 │ │ │ │ │ └── Sequence number (auto-incremented) │ └──────── Document type identifier └──────────────── Project code An internal microservice called id-generator handled this. It worked fine for