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UUIDs aren't great when it comes to using them as keys in a database. This has been covered in numerous blog posts. These two do a good job of explaining the problems:

• https://www.percona.com/blog/2019/11/22/uuids-are-popular-but-bad-for-performance-lets-discuss/
• https://thenewobjective.com/software-systems-engineering/sql-server-and-uuids

There's a new UUID format proposed to fix this issue: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-peabody-dispatch-new-uuid-format

While this package does not implement that format it implements a derivation of uuid_short proposed at the bottom of this article.

What again?

tldr: this package generates 64bit integer ids which, between a bounded set of devices, will be unique.

Proof please?