Not gonna lie, UUIDs are awful and I agree with that being a requirement.
My personal favorite is actually Amazon's ID system. The fact that at a glance I know what type/class of resource something is phenomenal.
Looking at you Azure. You GUID dumpster-fire of an API.
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Not gonna lie, UUIDs are awful and I agree with that being a requirement. My personal favorite is actually Amazon's ID system. The fact that at a glance I know what type/class of resource something is phenomenal.
Looking at you Azure. You GUID dumpster-fire of an API.
I also like Stripe's prefixes. like sk_ or card_ etc.
Removes any ambiguity.