Consistent Hashing Revolutionizes Data Distribution Across Servers
Summary
Consistent hashing, a groundbreaking technique, revolutionizes data distribution across servers in distributed systems, ensuring minimal disruption by moving only a small, predictable portion of keys when servers are added or removed, underpinning distributed caching systems, databases, and large-scale architectures of major tech companies.
Key Points
- Consistent hashing emerges as a clever solution for distributing data across multiple servers in distributed systems
- It ensures minimal disruption by moving only a small, predictable portion of keys when servers are added or removed
- Consistent hashing underpins distributed caching systems, databases, and large-scale architectures of major tech companies