A Brief History of the UUID | Hacker News
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14508413
A brief history of the UUID · Segment Blog
https://segment.com/blog/a-brief-history-of-the-uuid/
Creating User-Facing, Short Unique IDs: What are the options? - DEV Community
https://dev.to/yeo_alexandra/creating-user-facing-short-unique-ids-what-are-the-options-8mn
GitHub - turbo/pg-shortkey: YouTube-like Short IDs as Postgres Primary Keys
https://github.com/turbo/pg-shortkey
Moving away from UUIDs – Neil Madden
https://neilmadden.blog/2018/08/30/moving-away-from-uuids/
Robert G. Brown's General Tools Page
http://webhome.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/General/dieharder.php
[CASSANDRA-11991] On clock skew, paxos may "corrupt" the node clock - ASF JIRA
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-11991