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Sure, decentralised allocation is the intent of UUIDs, but in practice UUIDv4 is used extremely widely where it’s completely unnecessary, because it’s a conveni
by chrismorgan 4y ago
Sure, decentralised allocation is the intent of UUIDs, but in practice UUIDv4 is used extremely widely where it’s completely unnecessary, because it’s a convenient way of generating non-sequential IDs with good tooling support (UUID libraries, UUID data types in some databases, &c.).