shortid
A Go library for generating super short, fully unique, non-sequential, and URL-friendly IDs at high speed.
What is shortid?
Shortid is a Go package that generates compact, unique, non-sequential identifiers optimized for URL usage. It produces IDs at high speed with guaranteed uniqueness until 2050, solving the need for collision-resistant short identifiers in distributed systems and web applications.
Go developers building web applications, distributed systems, or services requiring URL-friendly unique identifiers without sequential ordering. System architects needing predictable ID generation across multiple concurrent workers.
Developers choose Shortid for its guaranteed uniqueness until 2050 without yearly resets, high performance generating hundreds of thousands of IDs per second, and concurrency-safe design. It provides stable ID length and deterministic algorithm with controlled randomness, unlike pure ports of similar libraries.
Overview
Super short, fully unique, non-sequential and URL friendly Ids
Use Cases
Best For
- Generating URL-friendly unique identifiers for web applications and APIs
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