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Consistent Hashing | The Backend Engineering Show

The Backend Engineering Show with Hussein Nasser

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Scaling a Single Query Will Give You Better Scalability, Right?

DBAs often try to optimize a single query as a result if you can get a query to consume less CPU. But we don't think this way anymore. We always take the shortcut, unfortunately. So I'll say, let's say I have four server, a cluster with four servers. And I want to distribute my values across these four servers. What we're gonna do is like giving the key, I need to know the server name, the server IP.

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