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> If you're using UUIDs, there's probably a reason.

Not really; think of how many architectural decisions are made purely based on imaginary scaling problems, or what the latest blog said.

I would wager that if you polled 100 backend devs, very few of them could correctly articulate the pros and cons of a randomized primary key.



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