Snowflake: A Distributed ID Generation Algorithm
1. Introduction
Snowflake is an open-source distributed ID generation algorithm from Twitter.
Core idea: Use a 64-bit long integer as a globally unique ID.
2. Structure
0 - 0001000000 0000010000 0001000100 0000100000 0 - 10001 - 11001 - 000000000000
2.1 Part 1: 1 bit
1 bit, unused.
Reason: If the first bit were 1, the number would be negat ...
Posted on Thu, 15 Oct 2026 16:57:41 +0000 by ccb