· about 19 hours ago· Dev.to
Why UUIDs Are Essential for Modern Database Solutions
Most of us learned databases with auto-increment IDs. id INT AUTO_INCREMENT is in every tutorial. It works — until it doesn't. Auto-increment integers are fast, small (4 bytes), and naturally ordered. For a single-database app with one writer, they're perfect. But real systems rarely stay that simpl
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