UUIDs are popular, but bad for performance (2019)
I recently read a book by Google’s head guy on API design that was specifically about designing APIs and it had a big section on what makes a good identifier and why people reach for UUIDs and why specifically it is a problem on multiple levels.<p>The thing that he ended up recommending however was super interesting in that I had never seen it mentioned before but it was basically to use this instead <a href="http://www.crockford.com/base32.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.crockford.com/base32.html</a>