Schema Design14 min read
UUID v4 vs UUID v7 vs Snowflake — Pick the Right Primary Key
A plain-English walkthrough: how B-tree inserts actually work, what a page split costs, why random UUID v4 keys bloat the index by 2× and blow the buffer pool.
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39 long-form articles on production engineering — how real systems fail, why, and what actually fixed them.
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