Snowflake

Snowflake is a crate that provides a simple implementation of unique-id generation based on Twitter's snowflake logic.

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| 1 Bit Unused | 41 Bit Timestamp |  10 Bit NodeID  |   12 Bit Sequence ID |
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Logic

• There are two components - Generator and Config.
• Config has a default implementation which provides 2 ^ 21 (2097152) unique ids per millisecond (1024 per node, across 2048 nodes) till year 2149 (~139 years from epoch). These values can be customised to support higher throughput or longer period of valid generation of unique IDs. Default config uses following details -
  • timestampBits - 42
  • nodeIdBits - 11