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A decentralized, k-ordered id generation service in Erlang

4 mentions on Hacker News by 4 people: 0 stories, 4 comments · first 2012-01-16 · latest 2018-12-27

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  1. And another (in Erlang, 128-bits, but uses the MAC address): https://github.com/boundary/flake
    comment by rch · 2018-12-27 · in ULID: Universally Unique Lexicographically Sortable Identifier
  2. That's the intuition behind systems like Flake ( https://github.com/boundary/flake ) and its predecessors. In systems like Flake you are able to get a useful roughly-ordered property which is good for generating ID's and organizing things…
    comment by jdp · 2016-02-13 · in The binary search of distributed programming
  3. …code.flickr.net/2010/02/08/ticket-servers-distributed... [2] https://github.com/twitter/snowflake [3] https://github.com/boundary/flake [4] http://boundary.com/blog/2012/01/12/flake-a-decentralized-k-... [5]…
    comment by klapinat0r · 2013-10-28 · in Best Practices for Designing a Pragmatic RESTful API
  4. …and added a roadmap as well as a faq after getting some good input over the last couple of days. https://github.com/boundary/flake
    comment by d2fn · 2012-01-16 · in Flake: A Decentralized, K-Ordered Unique ID Generator in Erlang