At the company I work at we use UUIDv7 but base63 encoded I believe. This gives you fairly short ids (16 chars iirc, it includes lowercase letters) that are also sortable.
I’m using this in production: RT.Comb - That still generates GUIDs, but generates them sequential over time. Gives you both the benefits of sequential ids, and also the benefits of sequential keys. I haven’t had any issues or collisions with that
Reject UUID embrace ULID.
Interesting 👀 https://github.com/ulid/spec
At the company I work at we use UUIDv7 but base63 encoded I believe. This gives you fairly short ids (16 chars iirc, it includes lowercase letters) that are also sortable.
I’ll be borrowing that little trick
https://github.com/TheArchitectDev/Architect.Identities
Here’s the package one of our former developers created. It has some advantages and some drawbacks, but overall it’s been quite a treat to work with!
base63? I’d guess you’d mean base64?
Anyways, doesn’t that fuck with performance?
I’m using this in production: RT.Comb - That still generates GUIDs, but generates them sequential over time. Gives you both the benefits of sequential ids, and also the benefits of sequential keys. I haven’t had any issues or collisions with that
It’s Base62 actually, misremembered that. It’s to avoid some special characters iirc. And no, performance is fine.
We’re using this: https://github.com/TheArchitectDev/Architect.Identities
I prefer CUID
Just to clarify: Yes, I do know not all use cases are appropriate for CUID. But in general when generating ID, I’d use CUID2
I vote for nanoid.