How Snowflake IDs work
Channel: iter
Date: 2020-10-01

How Twitter and Discord's Snowflakes work.



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0:00 What are Snowflakes?
0:23 Representing them with bits
0:33 Timestamp
0:43 Worker ID
0:56 Process ID
1:20 Sequence number
2:21 Twitter's version
2:54 The end