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by sam_lowry_ 335 days ago
or ULIDs or any other partially sortable ids.
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sebazzz 335 days ago
ULID are not necessarily sortable, just UUIDs consensed in a shorter string by using more characters than 0-9A-F
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sam_lowry_ 334 days ago
ULID = Unique Lexicographically sortable IDentifier ;-)
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jszymborski 334 days ago
ULIDs are sorta the opposite of the HMAC method, where you can't query for the nth ID, but you can sort the IDs.
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