Description: Matt Mitchell's technical experiences in C#, .NET, BizTalk, and ASP.NET MVC consulting.
Recently I came across a bit of an interesting problem.
An application I was working with had functionality that required the generation of user-friendly identifiers (e.g. 8 or less numbers). This seemed to be working pretty well the first day we looked at it: each new user was getting an incremental ID and things were smooth.
The second day there was a reasonable gap overnight in the ID range and as far as I could tell the bank account wasn’t overflowing with new business, so that was a bit odd. Still, I let it go as it didn’t seem to be doing any major harm yet.