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by nextaccountic 1995 days ago
> Really, just avoid any sequential, numeric IDs and you will be good, IMO.

Sequential ids make better as database indexes. Do you propose using both a uuid for external purposes and a sequential id as the primary key?

Or something like uuid v6? http://gh.peabody.io/uuidv6/ (which isn't widely supported)