esnowflake is Erlang/OTP application to generate uniq ID.
Original design: Twitter IDs (snowflake).
Documentation
> application:start(esnowflake).
ok
> Id = esnowflake:generate_id().
896221795344384
> esnowflake:generate_ids(2).
[896498611015681,896498611015680]
> esnowflake:to_unixtime(Id).
1509193995927
> esnowflake:stats().
[{version, undefined},
 {worker_num,10},
 {worker_ids,[0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9]}]
1> {Start, End} = {os:system_time(seconds)-3600*24, os:system_time(seconds)}.
{1528603140,1528689540}
2> esnowflake:range_ids(Start,End, seconds).
[82304072417280000,82666460287074303]
This must be specified as not to duplicate worker ids if you use multi nodes.
| params | default | explain | 
|---|---|---|
| worker_num | 2 | number of generate id workers | 
| worker_min_max_id | [0, 1] | worker ids | 
| redis | - | eredis config for assigning worker ids automatically | 
| twepoch | 1508980320000 | start unix time to number id (default: 2017-10-26 01:12:00 (UTC)) | 
- redis config
 
| params | default | 
|---|---|
| host | localhost | 
| port | 6379 | 
| database | 0 | 
| password | (empty) | 
| reconnect_sleep | please check eredis:start_link/1 | 
| connect_timeout | please check eredis:start_link/1 | 
- app.conf
 
[
 {esnowflake, [
               {worker_min_max_id, [0, 1]}
              ]}
].[
 {esnowflake, [
               {redis, [{host, "localhost"}, {port, 26379}]},
               {worker_num, 2}
              ]}
].----------------------------------------------------
2017-10-29 16:03:27.671
b_generate_id	100000	4564.13864 ns/op
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2017-10-29 16:03:28.703
b_generate_id	232502 op/sec
%%% esnowflake_SUITE ==> bench.b_generate_id: OK
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2017-10-29 16:03:29.700
b_generate_ids_100	10000	96834.8342 ns/op
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2017-10-29 16:03:30.702
b_generate_ids_100	686 op/sec
%%% esnowflake_SUITE ==> bench.b_generate_ids: OK