Which Identifier Should I Choose?
Which identifier should I choose? Well there's integer IDs, serial IDs... UUIDv1, UUIDv4... But they don't index well... SNOWFLAKE, KSUID, FLAKEID, ULID, SID, PUSHID, XID, OBJECTID...
A four-panel black-and-white comic shows a customer asking a fortune teller which identifier to choose, with a fortune-telling wagon in the first panel. The fortune teller lists increasingly specialized ID formats, ending in an overwhelming stream of database identifier names. The joke is aimed at developers facing the excessive number of choices for generating unique, index-friendly IDs.
- @profunctor_io / 8301 2022-09-29
- @dev_meme / 4895 2022-10-04
- @right_wing_dev_squads / 8548 2024-01-18
- Type
- image
- Size
- 490×490 · 52.3 KiB
- Mood
- overwhelmed, sarcastic
- Language
- en
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