Why do some prominent web sites use alphanumeric strings for resource IDs instead of numbers?
Channel: Roel Van de Paar
Date: 2022-09-21

Software Engineering: Why do some prominent web sites use alphanumeric strings for resource IDs instead of numbers?

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