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Well, they do have opportunities for screw-ups. We recently had some bad data loss issues because part of an application was using a buggy UUID generator that produced lots of collisions. If you google for UUID collision bugs, its not an uncommon occurrence.

Besides, UUIDs have fragmentation issues. I’d use ULID if I had need to generate IDs in a distributed fashion.



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