The Wild World of Unique Identifiers (UUID, ULID, etc)

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Every once in a while as a developer you find yourself stepping, and falling, into a much deeper rabbit hole than you would expect. I recently had one of these experiences as I have dug into the world of unique identifiers. It is this rabbit hole that I would like to take you down for a bit as well. Unique identifiers are everywhere in our code and our data storage and through better…