Hi, Does this feature used by users?
Chao Zhang https://github.com/tokers On June 14, 2023 at 16:55:45, Ling Samuel (lingsamuelgr...@gmail.com) wrote: *Background* The snowflake algorithm in the request-id plugin introduces an unnecessary dependency on etcd. This will significantly affect APISIX performance if etcd is unavailable. Snowflake depends on a unique worker_id, which is acquired from etcd. If etcd fails, each request with request-id plugin that uses the snowflake algorithm needs to try to retrieve a unique worker_id. This has a significant impact on performance. In addition, the data plane may not have access to etcd. This limitation would make the algorithm completely unusable. In the request-id scenario, uuid can generate a globally unique id, which is enough for this case. So I suggest removing this algorithm from the request-id plugin. There are some benefits here: 1. reduce code complexity and the maintenance burden 2. remove dependency on etcd on the data plane 3. reduce the potential instability of request-id that may affect user business
