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8 versions of UUID and when to use them
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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.
base63? I'd guess you'd mean base64?
Anyways, doesn't that fuck with performance?
I'm using this in production: RT.Comb - That still generates GUIDs, but generates them sequential over time. Gives you both the benefits of sequential ids, and also the benefits of sequential keys. I haven't had any issues or collisions with that
It's Base62 actually, misremembered that. It's to avoid some special characters iirc. And no, performance is fine.
We're using this: https://github.com/TheArchitectDev/Architect.Identities
I'll be borrowing that little trick
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!