https://github.com/manfred/sole

Universally unique identifiers packed with useful metadata meant for use if storage solutions.
https://github.com/manfred/sole

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Universally unique identifiers packed with useful metadata meant for use if storage solutions.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/manfred/sole
• Owner: Manfred
• License: mit
• Created: 2018-03-10T08:04:50.000Z (over 8 years ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2022-10-07T14:58:30.000Z (over 3 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-04-05T03:26:21.655Z (over 1 year ago)
• Language: Ruby
• Size: 12.7 KB
• Stars: 0
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 1
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  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE.txt

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# Sole

Sole helps with generating unique identifiers similar to a UUID or ULID but packing in additional metadata to make it useful for storage solutions.

```ruby

Sole.generate #=> 'VGPCCCCC4FPF97MM'

              #    ^^^^^^^^- seconds since epoch

              #              little endian order

              #              to help sharding

              #            ^^^^^^^^- random bytes

```

Sole identifiers work great as a key for AWS S3 keys because the start of the identifier is highly variable causing objects to be nicely distributed across backend servers.