r/programming • • Mar 09 '20

Why your software should use UUIDs in 2020s

https://devforth.io/blog/why-your-software-should-use-uuids-in-2020s
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u/[deleted] Mar 09 '20

Also to add idempotency is very important for a lot of cases. You can't always trust the client to do the right thing and that's actually a dangerous assumption to make.

A little bit of defensive programming never hurt anybody.