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		jimmaswell on Jan 8, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: UUIDs are popular, but bad for performance (2019) This seems to be just about using UUIDs as indexes in a DB, not using UUIDs in general as an ID for things which I'm not seeing any reason not to continue doing.

nightpool on Jan 8, 2022 [–]

Sure, as long as you never want to look things up or reference them by ID, then there's no reason to worry. Otherwise, yes, you'll have the exact same problems laid out in the article

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