The latest articles on DEV Community by Aryan Verma (@oryon). https://dev.to/oryon https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=90,height=90,fit=cover,gravity=auto,format=auto/https:%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fuser%2Fprofile_image%2F479594%2F8e4d6f4d-b767-4f54-b1eb-1cce24ee75c6.jpeg https://dev.to/oryon en Aryan Verma Sun, 27 Feb 2022 15:07:13 +0000 https://dev.to/oryon/short-unique-ids-for-dynamodb-1519 https://dev.to/oryon/short-unique-ids-for-dynamodb-1519 <p>Hey, so I'm working on a backend where we are using dynamoDB to store tasks, appointments, etc. Currently I'm using UUIDs as the primary key but we also want to display the task or orders IDs to the users on frontend and having a 32-length ID is not really desirable, it's just too big. I wanted to know what all alternative efficient methods are there to generate short random non-clashing or maybe incrementing (like in SQL) IDs. And we're using golang on backend, if that helps.</p> aws dynamodb discuss