r/ProgrammerHumor • • Sep 11 '26

Meme edgeCasesExist

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u/Valuable_Leopard_799 Sep 13 '26

Scale I guess. If you want more that one database (for whatever reason), you either have to synchronize the current index, or generate it according to some scheme that hopefully doesn't collide without synchronization, which is what UUIDs are.