Aaron is a Staff Database Reliability Engineer at Stack Overflow. We don't want to say he's old, but his experience dates back to a time when SQL Server 6.5 was considered "modern." He writes here at sqlperformance.com, over at sqlblog.org, and at MSSQLTips.
Stack Overflow had two outages involving the same identity column. The first time, we bought ourselves 12 years of runway. The second time, we burned through it in minutes.
