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Consistent Hashing | The Backend Engineering Show

The Backend Engineering Show with Hussein Nasser

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Using Consistent Hashing

The key here is, instead of the output of the key hash going to a server, we're gonna approximate it by using this concept of the rank. So in a state, they think of this idea as an actual rank, as an actual circle. The degree is based on the degrees, this is a 360 degree, right? And again, I'm picking,. I'm picking values that are so rounded up. This is just for example, you never get a get you're hardly gonna get s 90, right? Exactly, right? You're probably getting X is 27, right? But yeah, X nine, same thing."

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