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

Ids are longs, not ugly GUIDs.

Available on NuGet as SnowMaker: https://www.nuget.org/packages/snowmaker.netstandard20/

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

Ported to netstandard 2.0 and updated azure storage SDK