UUIDs are only good when you don't care about ergonomics or performance. Snowflake IDs are much more reasonable. 41 bits timestamp (ms) + 10 bit machine id + 1

UUIDs are only good when you don't care about ergonomics or performance. Snowflake IDs are much more reasonable. 41 bits timestamp (ms) + 10 bit machine id + 12 bit serial. But if you care about ergonomics and privacy the most then short and random IDs are really the best.