https://github.com/twitter-archive/snowflake

Snowflake is a network service for generating unique ID numbers at high scale with some simple guarantees.
https://github.com/twitter-archive/snowflake

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Snowflake is a network service for generating unique ID numbers at high scale with some simple guarantees.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/twitter-archive/snowflake
• Owner: twitter-archive
• Archived: true
• Created: 2010-06-01T20:32:15.000Z (over 14 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2020-07-22T18:08:14.000Z (about 4 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-04-15T14:16:43.543Z (5 months ago)
• Language: Scala
• Homepage: http://twitter.com/
• Size: 5.02 MB
• Stars: 7,573
• Watchers: 521
• Forks: 1,138
• Open Issues: 4
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md

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README

        
We have retired the initial release of Snowflake and working on open sourcing

the next version based on

[Twitter-server](https://twitter.github.io/twitter-server/), in a form that can

run anywhere without requiring Twitter's own infrastructure services.

The initial version, released in 2010, was based on Apache Thrift and it

predated [Finagle](https://twitter.github.io/finagle/), our building

block for RPC services at Twitter.  The Snowflake we're using internally is a

full rewrite and heavily relies on existing infrastructure at Twitter to run.

We cannot commit to a date but we're doing our best to add necessary features to

make Snowflake fit for many environments outside of Twitter.

Source code is still in the repository and is reachable from

[snowflake-2010](https://github.com/twitter/snowflake/releases/tag/snowflake-2010)

tag.

We won't be accepting pull requests or responding to issues for the retired

release.