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Consistent Hashing

Just stumbled upon an article explaining the technique of “consistent hashing”. Something that helps in determining one of several horizontally scaled servers to use for a given (cache) key.

Nice read and something I didn’t hear of before:
http://www.tomkleinpeter.com/2008/03/17/programmers-toolbox-part-3-consistent-hashing/

Already thinking of where to use it… 😉

Sunday, November 14th, 2010 Development

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