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Re:Auto increment is a terrible idea by zspitzer on Thursday November 30, 2017 @08:20AM (#15815457)
this is all great, but what happens when you need to reference several uuids in an url?
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Re:Auto increment is a terrible idea by wheresvic1 on Thursday November 30, 2017 @08:25AM (#15815498)
Check out twitter snowflake for shorter distributed uuids
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Re:Auto increment is a terrible idea by piquadrat on Thursday November 30, 2017 @08:41AM (#15815590)
Snowflake has been retired in 2014 [1]. Are there any similar services around that are still maintained?

[1]: https://github.com/twitter/snowflake

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Re:Auto increment is a terrible idea by wheresvic1 on Thursday November 30, 2017 @10:29AM (#15816457)
Aha yes the server has been retired - but the underlying principles were documented in a paper and there are quite a few implementations out there.
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