I adopted ULID for a project after seeing it recently mentioned in another HN comments thread[0] and it's very useful. The project uses Azure Table Storage, whi

I adopted ULID for a project after seeing it recently mentioned in another HN comments thread[0] and it's very useful. The project uses Azure Table Storage, which encourages querying by ranges of record IDs for efficiency, instead of filtering datasets by arbitrary record properties. My project revolves around processing windows of time in timestamp-ordered datasets, and ULID works well as a way to generate record IDs in a distributed system that naturally sort in timestamp order. With ULID, all of my major queries can operate on ranges of record IDs, as Azure Table Storage encourages. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25650907 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25650907