SnowId – A Decentralized, K-Ordered, 128-bit UUID library in C
Sharing my project inspired by twitter snowflake UUID generator but that supports: 1) Longer range of id's to be generated. 2) No coordination with other machines in the distributed system.
SnowId – A Decentralized, K-Ordered, 128-bit UUID library in C launched on November 3, 2022 with 15 votes, #1,179 of 3,471 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 3 years on.
In plain words
SnowId is a C library that generates 128-bit unique identifiers for distributed systems without requiring coordination between machines. Inspired by Twitter's Snowflake UUID generator, it enables a longer range of ID generation while maintaining a K-ordered structure. The library is designed for developers building scalable applications that need decentralized ID generation across multiple systems.
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A Decentralized, K-Ordered 128-bit Unique ID Generator library in C. - beyonddream/snowid
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