App Engine Datastore Tip: Monotonically Increasing Values Are Bad

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Ikai Lan. "App Engine Datastore Tip: Monotonically Increasing Values Are Bad." ikaisays.com, January 2011. Archived at perma.cc/BPX8-RPJB

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App Engine datastore tip: monotonically increasing values are bad - Ikai Says...

When saving entities to App Engine’s datastore at a high write rate, avoid monotonically increasing values such as timestamps. Generally speaking, you don’t

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