A Complete Guide to UUID Versions (v1, v4, v5) - With Examples
This post will describe UUID v1, v4, and v5, with examples. We will go through their implementation and differences, and when you should use them. Having a unique identifier is an important requirement in many applications today. The “Universally unique identifier”, or UUID, was designed to provide a consistent format for any unique ID we use for our data. UUIDs address the problem of generating a unique ID - either randomly, or using some data as a seed....
