Unique as a Snowflake
GUID is a term that was bandied about in my office to signify any unique id that we used to identify our database records. But I never gave it a second thought for a long time, that is until I heard UUID mentioned in the context of couchdb, as enabling distributed data storage. This piqued my interest and I started reading on UUID. (By the way, our Guids were just sequential numbers generated by our db). So I started digging more info on UUID in general and python’s uuid module in particular.
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