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The Easiest Way to Create a REST API With Go
The goal of babyapi is to be so easy that a baby could do it. As previously mentioned, babyapi.DefaultResource already implements the required interface, so it can be used as a starting point for simple resource types. Besides simply implementing the interface, this default struct implements some validations around the ID and uses rs/xid to create a unique identifer on new resources.
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Build a Job Queue with Rust Using Aide-De-Camp (Part 2)
To schedule a job, all we need to do is serialize the payload, create a new JID (we use XID for JIDs), and insert both into the adc_queue table.
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How we used Go 1.18 when designing our Identifiers
XID's are 96 bits. The first 32 bits are the time, which means we get our k-sorting immediately. The next 40 bits are a machine identifier and a process identifier. However, unlike the other systems, these are calculated automatically using the library and don't require us to configure anything ourselves. The final 24 bits are a sequence number, which allows a single process to generate 16,777,216 identifiers per second!
- Xid, globally unique id generator
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I need a unique ID sequence number generator, I know I could just use a small MySQL instance, but is there no other way?
Checkout xid https://github.com/rs/xid and how MongoDB does its id
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You Don't Need UUID
I've had success using xid for user-visible IDs. What's nice is they're shorter than UUID, will sort in order, hides the amount of rows in the table.
https://github.com/rs/xid
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What are some alternatives?
ulid - Universally Unique Lexicographically Sortable Identifier (ULID) in Go
uuid - Go package for UUIDs based on RFC 4122 and DCE 1.1: Authentication and Security Services.
sno - Compact, sortable and fast unique IDs with embedded metadata.
gouid - Fast, dependable universally unique ids
Monoton - Highly scalable, single/multi node, sortable, predictable and incremental unique id generator with zero allocation magic on the sequential generation
ksuid - K-Sortable Globally Unique IDs
goflake - A highly scalable and serverless unique ID generator for use in distributed systems. Written in GoLang. Inspired by Twitters Snowflake.
go.uuid - UUID package for Go