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by gopalv 3283 days ago
"Power of 2 Random Choices" ... has nothing to do with the "Power of 2" directly.

I like 2Choice because it is not dependent on hash function design & is temporal, but I have a positive aversion to the 2^n hash distributions when it comes to data, specifically for distributed systems which need to flex up/down [1].

[1] - http://notmysock.org/blog/hacks/1440