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3 Strategies for UUID Generation

Database vs Python Side UUID Generation

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Kala K
Feb 26, 2025
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Introduction

Generating Universally Unique Identifiers (referred as UUID or uuid here onwards ) as identifiers or primary keys for a piece of information is a common strategy to prevent information collisions. Though, there are several ways to generate UUIDs with varying levels of database and Python side processing. In general a feasible UUID generation…

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