Why? What? When? Where? How?

[nelsonic]

Porting the Node.js module https://github.com/dwyl/aguid over to Elixir
for use as primary key in https://github.com/dwyl/alog

• aguid/0 generates a pseudorandom UUID (always different) that conforms to spec: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universally_unique_identifier
  

  • https://github.com/zyro/elixir-uuid

• aguid/1 accepts a string or JSON (map) which is used to generate the deterministic UUID.
  This should always be the same and irreversible.

• aguid/2 accepts the String or JSON (map) as aguid/1 but also accpets a "parent" UUID which should be referenced in the "child" UUID such that we can "lookup" the parent or "chain" of nodes.

[nelsonic]

"on hold" while we discuss the more fundamental question: should we use UUIDs? dwyl/alog#15

[nelsonic]

Closing in favour of: dwyl/cid#1