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Consistent Hashing | The Backend Engineering Show

The Backend Engineering Show with Hussein Nasser

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The Problem of Distributed Systems

"I was able to figure out the server. So cost is zero is nothing," he says. "Here's we solve distributed system right there." But when four servers reach their limit, that means you're at the global scale, and I have users left and right millions of heads, you know, so that's the scale we're talking about, right?" He adds: "So now what you need to do is like move the key with a value four fromserver zero to server four". And now you have to move everything else.

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