In distributed systems, because there are too many requests to be handled by a single server reliably, requests are handled by a cluster of servers. In order to get high availability, the technique of distributing requests to servers needs to satisfy the following three requirements. Even distribution. Each backend …

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Identifying unique entities is a frequent requirement in software development. For instance, assigning a unique ID to each Ad impression enables us to link related events for billing and analysis. However, generating unique IDs becomes challenging when dealing with large distributed systems. In this survey, we explore …

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