SnowMakerCore (.NET Core / .NET Standard version)

Originally created by Tatham Oddie as SnowMaker

A high performance, distributed unique id generator for Azure environments.

Ids are longs, not ugly GUIDs.

This forked version updated by Chris Adol to netstandard2.0/netstandard2.1 and async. Now uses Azure.Storage.Blobs nuget package.

This version is available on NuGet as SnowMakerCore: http://nuget.org/List/Packages/SnowMakerCore

Usage should be something like this (different to the original usage):

     var storageConnectionString = "UseDevelopmentStorage=true"; //Actually, get a real connection string from your configuration.
     const string containerName = "snowmakerKeys";
     var dataStore = await BlobOptimisticDataStore.CreateAsync(storageConnectionString, containerName);
     var cloudyKeyGenerator = new UniqueIdGenerator(dataStore);
     var orderNumber = await cloudyKeyGenerator.NextIdAsync("orderNumbers");

Another example useage (using AzureSasCredential approach):

     var accountName = "mystorageaccountname"; //Actually, get a real storage account name from your configuration.
     var serviceUri = new Uri($"https://{accountName}.blob.core.windows.net");
     var azureSasCredential = new DefaultAzureCredential();
     const string containerName = "snowmakerKeys";
     var dataStore = await BlobOptimisticDataStore.CreateAsync(serviceUri, azureSasCredential, containerName);
     var cloudyKeyGenerator = new UniqueIdGenerator(dataStore);
     var orderNumber = await cloudyKeyGenerator.NextIdAsync("orderNumbers");

This version is NOT affiliated to the original authors so please do not ask them for help with this version.

Documented at http://blog.tatham.oddie.com.au/2011/07/14/released-snowmaker-a-unique-id-generator-for-azure-or-any-other-cloud-hosting-environment/

Heavily inspired by, and some code copied from http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/gg309174.aspx