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Reminds me of a problem I ran into once where someone had wanted unique but short codes as identifiers for relatively small counts, and picked a substring of a

• kr2 1y ago
  > However, the overall takeaway was: Don’t use the MongoDB Increment value as a Unique Identifier. However, the overall takeaway should be, as always: don't use MongoDB. Period. Every time I learn something new about it I'm baffled about why people continue to use it.