Article doesn't mention this but if you're exposing UUIDs to users, it's nice to base62 or base58 encode them. E.g. uuid v4: de7013fb-658e-40a0-9c02-d2308

Article doesn't mention this but if you're exposing UUIDs to users, it's nice to base62 or base58 encode them. E.g. uuid v4: de7013fb-658e-40a0-9c02-d23080b57fdb base58 : tt7Udwi9Tx9VE1ze7HDBxi Here's a lib I wrote in c++ for doing this, with python and erlang bindings, https://github.com/cieplak/uuid https://github.com/cieplak/uuid