Things You Should Do Now

• type_safe

  6 1,447 4.1 C++

  Zero overhead utilities for preventing bugs at compile time

I agree, the 'microtype' pattern can be a good way of getting the type-checker to catch silly mistakes.

In Ada it's standard practice. In C++ you really need a library to do it easily, but there's a good one out there ready to go:

https://github.com/foonathan/type_safe/

• spec

  62 8,627 0.0

  The canonical spec for ulid

  

Here’s a link to a description of ULID, for those like me who had never heard of it: https://github.com/ulid/spec

• InfluxDB

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  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• cuid

  8 3,338 2.8 JavaScript

  Collision-resistant ids optimized for horizontal scaling and performance.

  

How does it compare to cuid [1]? If you know the differences, can you please explain them for those like me who do not know both?

[1] https://github.com/ericelliott/cuid

• UUID

  9 12,321 7.5 PHP

  :snowflake: A PHP library for generating universally unique identifiers (UUIDs). (by ramsey)

just make sure you have everything configured correctly on your system if using UUIDs:

https://github.com/ramsey/uuid/issues/80

In the types of systems that need UUIDs there is probably no easy way to check for collisions. The prospect of mystery data corruption with no ability to trace it down frightens the hell out of me.

The only reason that issue was reported is because someone was actually doing the collision checking. That's not going to be the norm in UUID systems. Think about it.

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