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UUIDs are great for when you have a distributed system where connectivity between the nodes is intermittent, and every node needs to be able to create new entit
by tcoff91 3y ago
UUIDs are great for when you have a distributed system where connectivity between the nodes is intermittent, and every node needs to be able to create new entities without ever having ID collisions.
For instance, UUIDs allow mobile apps to create entities while offline.