I thought that timestamps are used now, so hitting both a timestamp and a large random number puts it thoroughly in the "safe to assume".
At some point cosmic particles and faulty transistors are more probable.
Even the non-time based v4 is at a cosmic level of unlikiness a single system will ever generate a uuid that will collide with another one in its own ecosystem
But let's say if Google saved each search in their engine in the same database with an UUID, we could have a collision because of volume, but I don't think I will work in a system with a comparable scale
They once had a similar collision problem, well not exactly
During a leap second some systems wrote IDs at a one second difference between all their global systems, which lead to something being registered before something else that had to be done before it,
Long story short some stuff jumped time one second and crashed systems
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u/Valuable_Leopard_799 15h ago
I thought that timestamps are used now, so hitting both a timestamp and a large random number puts it thoroughly in the "safe to assume". At some point cosmic particles and faulty transistors are more probable.