[HN Gopher] ULID - Sortable Unique Identifier ___________________________________________________________________ ULID - Sortable Unique Identifier Author : orobinson Score : 17 points Date : 2023-01-06 22:09 UTC (51 minutes ago) (HTM) web link (yadukrishnan.live) (TXT) w3m dump (yadukrishnan.live) | preillyme wrote: | This reminds me a little bit of Twitter's snowflake: To generate | the roughly-sorted 64 bit ids in an uncoordinated manner, we | settled on a composition of: timestamp, worker number and | sequence number. | | Sequence numbers are per-thread and worker numbers are chosen at | startup via zookeeper (though that's overridable via a config | file). | | https://blog.twitter.com/engineering/en_us/a/2010/announcing... | sophacles wrote: | Or just use the standards-track orderable UUID variants: | https://uuid6.github.io/uuid6-ietf-draft/ | samwillis wrote: | Discussed many time before: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=ulid | [deleted] ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2023-01-06 23:00 UTC)