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by expeditious 5707 days ago
If you have more data than, say, GDBM, can swallow in one bite, how could you break this data apart and then find the right chunk amongst multiple servers when given a key?

Also, what does the interviewer mean by this:

> I generally ask these folks if they think the problem of looking up a key by value has been solved before, especially given the two weeks to be live in production requirement.

Is that a typo? s/key by value/value by key/ ?