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by henryfjordan 2088 days ago
That's fair, if you care about close-enough time-ordering but don't care about strict global causality then ULIDs would be useful. I suppose if you have a partition-able workload (say users posts go into Kafka keyed on userId) then you can use ULIDs to have guaranteed order within a partition, which is probably enough for many use-cases.