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Aug 6, 2022 24 min

Consistent Hashing | The Backend Engineering Show

from The Backend Engineering Show with Hussein Nasser Hosted by Hussein Nasser

In this episode of the backend engineering show I discuss consistent hashing a very important algorithm in distributed computing specially in database systems such as Apache Cassandra and DynamoDB. 0:00 Intro 2:00 Problem of Distributed Systems 5:00 When to Distribute 7:00 Simple Hashing 9:30 Where Simple Hashing Breaks 11:40 Consistent Hashing 18:00 Adding a Server 21:15 Removing a Server 22:30 Limitations Buy me a coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/hnasr

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