Goflake is a distributed id generation service that tries its best to hand out ids that don't look like they came from a distributed id generation service.

• Keys start at zero.
• Every key is unique.
• Every key from the same node will be ascending.
• Keys from multiple nodes that are not ascending will only be out of order by at most one second
• No external dependencies (co-ordination is taken care of on-site with the fantastic Hashicorp raft library)

• As small and as few gaps as possible. The more variable the load to a node, the more and larger the gaps.
• Coordination once per second per node (though this can go up for highly variable loads).

Start a single node (just for testing; use at least three for fault tolerance):

goflake --config goflake.toml

and use the HTTP API to get new IDs:

bender:~ phil$ curl -D - http://localhost:8080/next
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2015 23:50:16 GMT
Content-Length: 2
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8

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No. Don't do it. This has never been used in a production environment, and you probably don't want to be the first. Feel free to play with it and send me pull requests, though!