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8 versions of UUID and when to use them (www.ntietz.com)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Reject UUID embrace ULID.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

At the company I work at we use UUIDv7 but base63 encoded I believe. This gives you fairly short ids (16 chars iirc, it includes lowercase letters) that are also sortable.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'll be borrowing that little trick

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

https://github.com/TheArchitectDev/Architect.Identities

Here's the package one of our former developers created. It has some advantages and some drawbacks, but overall it's been quite a treat to work with!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

Interesting 👀 https://github.com/ulid/spec

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I prefer CUID

Just to clarify: Yes, I do know not all use cases are appropriate for CUID. But in general when generating ID, I'd use CUID2

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

I vote for nanoid.