See also u/poitrus' https://github.com/rs/xid https://github.com/rs/xid Xid uses the Mongo Object ID algorithm to generate globally unique ids with a different

See also u/poitrus' https://github.com/rs/xid https://github.com/rs/xid Xid uses the Mongo Object ID algorithm to generate globally unique ids with a different serialization (base64) to make it shorter when transported as a string: https://docs.mongodb.org/manual/reference/object-id/ https://docs.mongodb.org/manual/reference/object-id/ - 4-byte value representing the seconds since the Unix epoch, - 3-byte machine identifier, - 2-byte process id, and - 3-byte counter, starting with a random value.