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Sonyflake is a distributed unique ID generator inspired by Twitter's Snowflake.

Sonyflake focuses on lifetime and performance on many host/core environment. So it has a different bit assignment from Snowflake. A Sonyflake ID is composed of

39 bits for time in units of 10 msec
 8 bits for a sequence number
16 bits for a machine id

As a result, Sonyflake has the following advantages and disadvantages:

However, if you want more generation rate in a single host, you can easily run multiple Sonyflake ID generators concurrently using goroutines.

Installation

go get github.com/sony/sonyflake

Usage

The function New creates a new Sonyflake instance.

func New(st Settings) (*Sonyflake, error)

You can configure Sonyflake by the struct Settings:

type Settings struct {
	StartTime      time.Time
	MachineID      func() (uint16, error)
	CheckMachineID func(uint16) bool
}

In order to get a new unique ID, you just have to call the method NextID.

func (sf *Sonyflake) NextID() (uint64, error)

NextID can continue to generate IDs for about 174 years from StartTime. But after the Sonyflake time is over the limit, NextID returns an error.

Note: Sonyflake currently does not use the most significant bit of IDs, so you can convert Sonyflake IDs from uint64 to int64 safely.

AWS VPC and Docker

The awsutil package provides the function AmazonEC2MachineID that returns the lower 16-bit private IP address of the Amazon EC2 instance. It also works correctly on Docker by retrieving instance metadata.

AWS VPC is assigned a single CIDR with a netmask between /28 and /16. So if each EC2 instance has a unique private IP address in AWS VPC, the lower 16 bits of the address is also unique. In this common case, you can use AmazonEC2MachineID as Settings.MachineID.

See example that runs Sonyflake on AWS Elastic Beanstalk.

License

The MIT License (MIT)

See LICENSE for details.