Why we chose NanoIDs for PlanetScale’s API — PlanetScaleWhen we were first building PlanetScale’s API, we needed to figure out what type of identifier we’d be using. We knew that we wanted to avoid using integer IDs so that we wouldn’t reveal the count of records in all our tables. The common solution to this problem is using a UUID (Universally Unique Identifier) instead. UUIDs are great because it’s nearly impossible to generate a duplicate and they
