Hi! This is a quick suggestion.
How about using a global counter (just like your title suggests). You can use a sharded global counter to facilitate your counting. And use that counter as a "timestamp" / bookmark. On every "event", you read from the global counter, use that value as your "timestamp", and then increment the global counter. I'm not sure of it's implications, though. I'm not also sure if it actually guarantees uniqueness of "timestamps" when two events happen almost at the same time. Perhaps you can get an idea from this. Enjoy! --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
