nanoid VS snowflake

CURRENT_CLIENT_ID is the random unique string Id generated by nanoid that gets generated whenever the client is opened on the brower’s tab.

Last thing left is to use our new upload function in our server action. Since I like to upload images in single format and have some more control over them, I will additionally use sharp library. For file name, I'll generate some random string using nanoid:

Our API is in node. And God, how I suffered to import nanoid in an esmodule project. I had to vendor it, since using a previous version was not ideal. With bun, we can no longer worry about that. Just import what you need and done.

No thread about UUID is complete without a plug for NanoID! https://github.com/ai/nanoid/blob/main/README.md

Generate a unique file name using the nanoid library.

The syntax should read similar to SQL itself. We’re using a Python port of nanoid to generate our IDs. There’s only one thing missing… how do we actually create the table?

I usually go for Nano Id for new projects https://github.com/ai/nanoid

Nano ID

If you're not distributed, use an incrementing integer.

If you're distributed, look into vector clocks[1] or snowflake[2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vector_clock

[2] https://github.com/twitter-archive/snowflake/tree/snowflake-...

MongoDB ObjectId Time, Clocks, and the Ordering of Events in a Distributed System Snowflake

There are so many of them in big data, e.g. Kafka, Spark, Flink, Delta, Snowplow, Finagle, Deequ, CMAK, OpenWhisk, Snowflake, TheHive, TVM-VTA, etc.

Twitter built Snowflake https://github.com/twitter-archive/snowflake/tree/snowflake-2010

that being said, I have seen people acting weird about the whole thing, I don't care if you're mad at HYBE or BIGHIT for not telling him, what I care about are these people acting as if Jimin cannot deal with this or handle it himself. why they are THEY asking an explanation to be given to them? this is none of your business, he's a grown man and he can handle it himself. it's funny because even if he was to talk to someone about this, we will never know and that will be him dealing with his issue. they sit on twitter.com and try to play BTS manager and think they how BTS should be managed and HYBE needs to do things their way. they have managers for a reason and we are not the ones, I can't even believe this whole thing blew up so much.