I feel like this article way downplays the entire point of UUIDv7s, which is that it lets you sort (and store!) your data kinda sorta by creation time, no overlap ever. That's great for cursors, for streaming data, for twitter clones, for chat messages, for player moves, and so on and so forth. Nearly everything that's vaguely realtimey that you might like to both persist and broadcast live to other clients, and displayed in a stable & reasonable order, benefits from a property like this.
In fairness, he does mention this, but squeezes it into a single sentence near the end. But eg the fact that you can't reliably extract the precise timestamp from the UUIDv7 is a feature, not a bug. It's either that or collisions and you don't want the collisions.
In fairness, he does mention this, but squeezes it into a single sentence near the end. But eg the fact that you can't reliably extract the precise timestamp from the UUIDv7 is a feature, not a bug. It's either that or collisions and you don't want the collisions.