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The Quiet Bottleneck in Your Symfony App: Fragmented Indexes and Random UUIDs

The Quiet Bottleneck in Your Symfony App: Fragmented Indexes and Random UUIDs

Update: 2025-11-30
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Random UUIDs silently fragment your database and slow down inserts. Learn how UUID v7, ULIDs, and Symfony’s Uid component dramatically boost performance.

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Random UUIDs silently fragment your database and slow down inserts. Learn how UUID v7, ULIDs, and Symfony’s Uid component dramatically boost performance.

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The Quiet Bottleneck in Your Symfony App: Fragmented Indexes and Random UUIDs

The Quiet Bottleneck in Your Symfony App: Fragmented Indexes and Random UUIDs

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