Somewhere in between a snowflake and a noeqd.
Most of the inspiration for this project comes from twitter's Snowflake generator with ideals like, simple setup, configuration, and wireprotocols, borrowed from noeqd. Goals (differences) this project has are
- modularity. Seqd can be used as a server or an in-process id generator without network library dependencies
- simplicity. Snowflake is written in entangles many twitter specific concerns throughout its source. seqd makes as few assumptions about its deployment as possible.
- introspection. One of the key features of both snowflake and noeqd is the encoding of meta information within generator ids but neither exposes a straight forward way to access this information. seqd does.
Doug Tangren (softprops) 2014
