twitter-archive/snowflake
Snowflake is a network service for generating unique ID numbers at high scale with some simple guarantees. observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
10/100
- Activity 0
- Release rhythm 35
- Longevity 100
Flags: no_releases archived no_license
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: n/a
- age_days: 5937
- days_rel: n/a
- days_push: 2233
- n_releases_24m: 0
Adoption not part of the score
7766 stars · 1116 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded
Snowflake is Twitter's network service for generating unique 64-bit IDs at high scale with ordering guarantees. The original 2010 release is retired and no longer maintained, with a rewrite planned but never released here.
Use cases
- generate unique IDs at high scale
- time-sortable ID generation for distributed systems
- self-hosted unique ID service
- replace database auto-increment IDs in sharded systems
When to avoid
- you need a maintained ID generation service
- starting a new project - use an active Snowflake ID implementation instead
- you expect support or pull requests to be accepted
Facets
service · maturity abandoned
rpc networking databases microservices developer-tools jvm unique-ids id-generator scala twitter retired id-generation linux
1 source
- readme: https://github.com/twitter-archive/snowflake · fetched 2026-08-28 · f3bfc54bbb54
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| twitter-archive/snowflake | main | 10 |
For agents
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