Flake: An Erlang Decentralized, K-Ordered Unique ID Generator by Boundary
After posting about the proposal of adding a 128-bit K-Order unique id generator to Redis, I’ve realized I haven’t linked to Boundary’s post about Flake, their decentralized k-ordered unique id generator project:
All that is required to construct such an id is a monotonically increasing clock and a location 3. K-ordering dictates that the most-significant bits of the id be the timestamp. UUID-1 contains this information, but arranges the pieces in such a way that k-ordering is lost. Still other schemes offer k-ordering with either a questionable representation of ‘location’ or one that requires coordination among nodes.
Original title and link: Flake: An Erlang Decentralized, K-Ordered Unique ID Generator by Boundary (©myNoSQL)
