Originally created by Tatham Oddie as SnowMaker

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

Ids are longs, not ugly GUIDs.

This version updated by Chris Adol to use netcore2.0 / netstandard2.0 and async.

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 cloudStorageAccount = CloudStorageAccount.Parse(storageConnectionString);
     const string containerName = "snowmakerKeys";
     var dataStore = await BlobOptimisticDataStore.CreateAsync(cloudStorageAccount, 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