[ric2b]

Why the id generator? Aren't GUID's enough? The chance of a collision is basically 0.

[SEJeff]

A few different points of view:

https://tomharrisonjr.com/uuid-or-guid-as-primary-keys-be-ca...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14523523 (the hacker news comments for the above article are really insightful)

https://www.percona.com/blog/2019/11/22/uuids-are-popular-bu...

https://blog.codinghorror.com/primary-keys-ids-versus-guids/

[the_arun]

For most of the use cases GUID works great. There are some cases where we need a numerical id which is sequential.