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In my old company new joiners are assigned an monotonic number as id in tech. GitHub profile url reflected that.

Someone may or may not have used the pattern to get to know the attrition rate through running a simple script every month))

Leaving Intel 8 months ago

Screaming at Disk drives has been my go-to party trick to break ice the last decade.

One of my previous orgs used incrementing number for Github profiles. While there was no privacy concern about accessing a Github profile of another user, i don't think the org expected someone to calculate tech attrition and layoff count using this URL pattern ;)

Does you team hire? Haha. But yeah, In my current team EM also drops the ball for his own growth or agenda. Not sure how one can handle that.

We have a system where each pod spins up around 30 scheduled job instances of one job each processing a "partition", then transaction outbox is queried with hash of identifier equating it to partition.

We increased partition counts on sale days and it works well for us.

Couple of gotchas we had were.

1) Using hashtext from postgres is sketchy.

2) Increasing partiton count is an orchestra which requires stopping the partition.

Could you please link any blog post which goes into what you are talking about, I feel I am also at the high barrier to enter situation about this stuff