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by jamesboehmer 1545 days ago
You can also base62-encode the UUID's underlying integer and you get a short, URL-friendly identifier, while maintaining the power and uniformity of UUID. The claim with nanoID is that it's twice as fast as UUID, but I'm not sure how impactful that is given my services all spent orders of magnitude more time in I/O wait for a database after any UUID functionality.