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by haney 1269 days ago
I read The Dynamo paper [1] early in my career and its use of consistent hashing inspired me to use similar approaches in systems I've developed.

1. https://s3.amazonaws.com/systemsandpapers/papers/amazon-dyna...

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English is not my native language. I read this paper a few times over past decade but never quite understood how consistent hashing actually works at scale as nodes go offline and get replaced.