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by thezilch 5266 days ago
Snowflake is referenced in the article "Credits" with a distinction between the products -- though, the product name is a bit dubious. It [Flake] differs primarily in that we allow ourselves a wider address space in which to fit ids which means we don’t have to think about timestamp truncation or coordination of worker ids.
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Yeah. But the hard part is the 64bit representation. If you have 128 bits, you can no longer be a standard int. And you can just use UUIDs if you don't care about k-ordering.