alt Hacker NewsThat depends on if the specific implementation of the generator instance is thread safe. Highly implausible to use the same generator instance between different threads/processes/hosts because there's no benefit at all and only additional downsides.
That depends on if the specific implementation of the generator instance is thread safe. Highly implausible to use the same generator instance between different threads/processes/hosts because there's no benefit at all and only additional downsides.
To implement a thread-safe sequential increment, you need locking. When you use locking, then it becomes a “non-universal” ID generator with arbitrary performance impact.
Either it’s collision-prone or locking. Both are problematic in their own way.
It’s footguns all over while UUIDv7 simply exists.