Articles like this remind me of that Innovation Tokens article.

Your time and attention is precious as a developer. I'm absolutely sure it's possible to implement uniqueness constraints, transactions, indices, and history yourself, but is that really the most valuable use of your time? There's probably not a need for you to have a unique solution, so you're quite literally just re-inventing something someone already had for not a lot of benefit.

Wouldn't your time be better spent actually solving the problems that whatever you're building is supposed to solve?