shockleyje's comments

I'm the last relative of William Shockley (cited in the story) who's still in the industry.

I like the way this story portrays his success in solving open-ended problems as long as they aligned with the company direction. I've personally never made that connection between us, but it resonates with where I've personally found success, and currently am, in my career as well.

Fortunately, a lot of our beliefs about the world are quite different.

You are awesome! I work with a former engineering manager of Stripe and one initiative they had me on was migrating our UUID's to the prefixed strategy you mentioned in Stripe.

Most of the effort, honestly, went into the compatibility layer when bridging which version of the ID was accepted on a given API, and ensuring that this major change was implemented between services universally (i.e., is service B going to fail if I send a prefixed ID?).

All of this to say, I am hesitant to generally recommend migrating from UUID -> prefixed UUID, but I will be considering starting future projects of my own with UPID

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