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Unique Identifiers: UUID vs NanoID

I think every developer used unique identifiers at least once in their life. You can use those to generate a primary key in a database, a unique filename, etc. In this article, I'll compare the popular UUID with the rising start NanoID. UUID This i...

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Miki Szeles

Feb 16, 2022

Thanks Razvan for sharing your knowledge. I have never heard about NanoID before. It would be interesting to learn a little bit about the implementation details of the 2 different IDs. Are you planning to write on that?

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