something that always catches my eye in a system is what kind of ids it uses. and the ones i’m most fond of are the human readable variety i first saw in stripe, they have a prefix indicating what resource they are followed by random characters. e.g. cus_NffrFeUfNV2Hib and re_1Nispe2eZvKYlo2Cd31jOCgZ is a customer and refund respectively, and even if that’s flying by in logs or some csv you know what it is.| schpet’s notebook
ULIDs are an alternative to UUIDs that solve several problems, but it's not all plain sailing. This post shares experience using ULIDs in production, exploring some of the drawbacks in an aim to help others pick an ID format.| blog.lawrencejones.dev
