It’s the evolution of the internet. When is the last time you heard someone say WAN instead of cloud?
Lexicographically-sortable and universally-unique are the two desirable properties. Indexable would have saved mongo’s fate, if added up-front.
The funny thing is, no one was stopping us from using cuid or blid. I use ulids all the time for primary keys, and the query properties are simply exactly as advertised.
I wondered if anyone would question that! A touch of snark.
But, I’ve now been in the industry long enough that people have given me the same business requirements for intrawebs that they now use to talk about the cloud.
The idea of a UUID was always to sync pieces of data generated on nodes that might be across the street, or in Munich or Tokyo-023. They don’t have the same synchronous atomic clock.
Same problem, but we have new bandwidth, new compute, new thinkers, and new yellers.
The key is that latency has become low enough for real-time applications to always be on your mind.
Example: artificial neural networks have been around since the 60’s. You couldn’t get paid to work on them until GPUs gave you the compute, and cryptocurrency flooded the market with it. Same thing with fiber and always connected UI lifestyles.
Lexicographically-sortable and universally-unique are the two desirable properties. Indexable would have saved mongo’s fate, if added up-front.
The funny thing is, no one was stopping us from using cuid or blid. I use ulids all the time for primary keys, and the query properties are simply exactly as advertised.
Annoying for monotonic to even be optional.