diff --git a/react-social/src/user/login/Login.js b/react-social/src/user/login/Login.js
index 11ccd17..d4d88f4 100644
--- a/react-social/src/user/login/Login.js
+++ b/react-social/src/user/login/Login.js
@@ -10,6 +10,8 @@ import Alert from 'react-s-alert';
 
 class Login extends Component {
     componentDidMount() {
+        // If the OAuth2 login encounters an error, the user is redirected to the /login page with an error.
+        // Here we display the error and then remove the error query parameter from the location.
         if(this.props.location.state && this.props.location.state.error) {
             setTimeout(() => {
                 Alert.error(this.props.location.state.error, {
@@ -121,4 +123,4 @@ class LoginForm extends Component {
     }
 }
 
-export default Login
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+export default Login
diff --git a/spring-social/src/main/java/com/example/springsocial/controller/SequenceGenerator.java b/spring-social/src/main/java/com/example/springsocial/controller/SequenceGenerator.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..2f48cb3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/spring-social/src/main/java/com/example/springsocial/controller/SequenceGenerator.java
@@ -0,0 +1,110 @@
+package com.example.springsocial.controller;
+
+
+import java.net.NetworkInterface;
+import java.security.SecureRandom;
+import java.time.Instant;
+import java.util.Enumeration;
+
+/**
+ * Distributed Sequence Generator.
+ * Inspired by Twitter snowflake: https://github.com/twitter/snowflake/tree/snowflake-2010
+ *
+ * This class should be used as a Singleton.
+ * Make sure that you create and reuse a Single instance of SequenceGenerator per machine in your distributed system cluster.
+ */
+public class SequenceGenerator {
+    private static final int TOTAL_BITS = 64;
+    private static final int EPOCH_BITS = 42;
+    private static final int MACHINE_ID_BITS = 10;
+    private static final int SEQUENCE_BITS = 12;
+
+    private static final int maxMachineId = (int)(Math.pow(2, MACHINE_ID_BITS) - 1);
+    private static final int maxSequence = (int)(Math.pow(2, SEQUENCE_BITS) - 1);
+
+    // Custom Epoch (January 1, 2015 Midnight UTC = 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z)
+    private static final long CUSTOM_EPOCH = 1420070400000L;
+
+    private final int machineId;
+
+    private long lastTimestamp = -1L;
+    private long sequence = 0L;
+
+    // Create Snowflake with a machineId
+    public SequenceGenerator(int machineId) {
+        if(machineId < 0 || machineId > maxMachineId) {
+            throw new IllegalArgumentException(String.format("MachineId must be between %d and %d", 0, maxMachineId));
+        }
+        this.machineId = machineId;
+    }
+
+    // Let Snowflake generate a machineId
+    public SequenceGenerator() {
+        this.machineId = createMachineId();
+    }
+
+
+    public long nextId() {
+        long currentTimestamp = timestamp();
+
+        synchronized (this) {
+            if(currentTimestamp < lastTimestamp) {
+                throw new IllegalStateException("Invalid System Clock!");
+            }
+
+            if (currentTimestamp == lastTimestamp) {
+                sequence = (sequence + 1) & maxSequence;
+                if(sequence == 0) {
+                    // Sequence Exhausted, wait till next millisecond.
+                    currentTimestamp = waitNextMillis(currentTimestamp);
+                }
+            } else {
+                // reset sequence for next millisecond
+                sequence = 0;
+            }
+
+            lastTimestamp = currentTimestamp;
+        }
+
+        long id = currentTimestamp << (TOTAL_BITS - EPOCH_BITS);
+        id |= (machineId << (TOTAL_BITS - EPOCH_BITS - MACHINE_ID_BITS));
+        id |= sequence;
+        return id;
+    }
+
+
+    // Get current timestamp in milliseconds, adjust for the custom epoch.
+    private static long timestamp() {
+        return Instant.now().toEpochMilli() - CUSTOM_EPOCH;
+    }
+
+    // Block and wait till next millisecond
+    private long waitNextMillis(long currentTimestamp) {
+        while (currentTimestamp == lastTimestamp) {
+            currentTimestamp = timestamp();
+        }
+        return currentTimestamp;
+    }
+
+    private int createMachineId() {
+        int machineId;
+        try {
+            StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
+            Enumeration<NetworkInterface> networkInterfaces = NetworkInterface.getNetworkInterfaces();
+            while (networkInterfaces.hasMoreElements()) {
+                NetworkInterface networkInterface = networkInterfaces.nextElement();
+                byte[] mac = networkInterface.getHardwareAddress();
+                if (mac != null) {
+                    for(int i = 0; i < mac.length; i++) {
+                        sb.append(String.format("%02X", mac[i]));
+                    }
+                }
+            }
+            machineId = sb.toString().hashCode();
+        } catch (Exception ex) {
+            machineId = (new SecureRandom().nextInt());
+        }
+        machineId = machineId & maxMachineId;
+        return machineId;
+    }
+}
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