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When you’ve got 128bits to play with, I think you can do more useful thing with those bits than UUIDs provide. UUID are perfect fine identifiers in an entirely
by avianlyric 4y ago
When you’ve got 128bits to play with, I think you can do more useful thing with those bits than UUIDs provide.
UUID are perfect fine identifiers in an entirely pure sense. But baking a like more info into those identifiers can make debugging and building operational tools so much easier. It’s just a massive waste to fill those 128bits with either random data, or very limited options that other UUID versions give you.
Arguments around leaking information into public I think are a little silly as well. There are plenty of ways of preventing that, trading ease of debugging for making your internal identifiers safe in public is a poor trade off in my view.