Why your software should use UUIDs in 2020s

https://devforth.io/blog/why-your-software-should-use-uuids-in-2020s

Excerpt:

Conclusion

• UUIDs solve the problem of centralized ID store making possible working in offline and handle complex relations on frontend by making frontend independent from the server which makes it super-responsive
• UUIDs allow you to implement shards for high-load scalable systems
• UUIDs make your IDs more secure by hiding records count
• To decrease insert time use UUIDv1 as IDs system
• Store it in the database as 16 bytes
• To save traffic transmit Shot UUIDs