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Consistent Hashing | The Backend Engineering Show
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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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