Pika.Snowflake holds the state, generates Snowflakes, and decodes Snowflakes.

Pika.Snowflake should be started under a Supervisor or Application before you start using Pika.gen/1 or Pika.deconstruct/1

defmodule MyApp.Application do
  use Application

  def start(_type, _args) do
    children = [Pika.Snowflake]

    Supervisor.start_link(children, strategy: :one_for_one)
  end
end

or manually in iex

iex(1)> Pika.Snowflake.start_link()
{:ok, #PID<0.190.0>}

Custom epoch

You can start Pika.Snowflake with a custom epoch by passing it:

Pika.Snowflake.start_link(1_650_153_600_000)