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Rendezvous Hashing Explained (2020)
Rendezvous hashing is an algorithm to solve the distributed hash table problem - a common and general pattern in distributed systems. There are three parts o...
In 1999, Akamai Technologies hosted the ESPN March Madness games and the movie trailer for Star Wars: The Phantom Menace. The trailer was so popular that the traffic crashed the film studio’s website - Akamai’s webcaches were the only way to access the video for several days. If working with a system that does not eventually satisfy the “first choice” invariant, rendezvous hashing will require some care when scaling up the number of servers.
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