https://gophercoding.com/tags/id/Recent content in Id on Gopher CodingHugoen-gbSun, 12 Nov 2023 16:47:48 +0000https://gophercoding.com/generate-uuids-in-go/Sun, 12 Nov 2023 15:00:00 +0000https://gophercoding.com/generate-uuids-in-go/<p>UUIDs (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universally_unique_identifier">Universally Unique Identifiers</a>) serve as a standard for generating identifiers that are <strong>unique across time and space</strong>. In this blog post, we&rsquo;ll explore how to generate UUIDs in Go using the <a href="https://github.com/google/uuid">google/uuid</a> package. These can be especially useful when generating IDs across different systems - where it wouldn&rsquo;t be possible to track using an auto incrementing integer.</p>