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		Generating unique IDs in a distributed environment at high scale (pankajtanwar.in)
		3 points by the2ndfloorguy on Sept 21, 2021 \| hide \| past \| favorite \| 1 comment

verdverm on Sept 21, 2021 [–]

CUIDs are a good distributed (locally generated) solution.

https://github.com/ericelliott/cuid

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