Why Choose ULIDs over Traditional UUIDs or IDs for Database Identification?

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  • sqids-blocklist

    Sqids library to generate the default blocklist that will be used to test auto-generated IDs.

    • Or just use ints and encrypt them when you want to return them to the user.

    https://sqids.org/

  • Hashids.java

    Hashids algorithm v1.0.0 implementation in Java

    • My preference: using traditional incremental numeric IDs and obfuscate them with Hashids (https://hashids.org) when exposed publicly

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