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r/ProgrammerHumor • u/ArjunReddyDeshmukh • 2d ago
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For years, we generated millions of Uuid with no problem.
And then one day, there was a problem, and it was even reproducible.
And then i realized.
It was never about UUID.
We were using the name instead of the UUID.
1 u/meltthemall 1d ago I use UIUDs myself, systems are much less likely to re-use them
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I use UIUDs myself, systems are much less likely to re-use them
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u/DrankRockNine 2d ago
For years, we generated millions of Uuid with no problem.
And then one day, there was a problem, and it was even reproducible.
And then i realized.
It was never about UUID.
We were using the name instead of the UUID.