./wip/go-ksuid, K-Sortable Globally Unique IDs

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Branch: CURRENT, Version: 1.0.3, Package name: go-ksuid-1.0.3, Maintainer: kamelderouiche

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ksuid is a Go library that can generate and parse KSUIDs.

# Install
```bash
go get -u github.com/segmentio/ksuid
```

# What is a KSUID?

KSUID is for K-Sortable Unique IDentifier. It's a way to generate globally
unique IDs similar to RFC 4122 UUIDs, but contain a time component so they
can be "roughly" sorted by time of creation. The remainder of the KSUID is
randomly generated bytes.

# Why use KSUIDs?

Distributed systems often require unique IDs. There are numerous solutions
out there for doing this, so why KSUID?
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