> I'm sure that's a common situation It's the situation we're presented with in the blog post. It's not an uncommon situation given that UUIDs are used in data

> I'm sure that's a common situation It's the situation we're presented with in the blog post. It's not an uncommon situation given that UUIDs are used in databases and, for many databases, compression is done at a block level. > nor am I sure why this is assumed to be the primary metric for IDs. It isn't.