Excellent questions! There is some additional magic that goes into the generated part of the ID. Long story short, we use part of the ID for database sharding. Some resource IDs are indeed longer than others, this is mainly to avoid collisions for resources that we expect to have a lot more of.
We have in the past increased the length of IDs. One example that comes to mind are API keys, which we changed to be up to 255 characters in length.
We don't use the ID as the primary key, as mentioned before we do some sharding magic with the exposed ID so the internal ID is a little different.
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Excellent questions! There is some additional magic that goes into the generated part of the ID. Long story short, we use part of the ID for database sharding. Some resource IDs are indeed longer than others, this is mainly to avoid collisions for resources that we expect to have a lot more of.
We have in the past increased the length of IDs. One example that comes to mind are API keys, which we changed to be up to 255 characters in length.
We don't use the ID as the primary key, as mentioned before we do some sharding magic with the exposed ID so the internal ID is a little different.