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Consistent Hashing | The Backend Engineering Show

The Backend Engineering Show with Hussein Nasser

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Distributed Database

The problem that we are seeing today with distributed system is as follows, if my database no longer can fit in a single instance. So you now have to really move things around, with a new resize, and it's a really a big problem. In this episode of the Backend Show, I'd like to talk about that a little bit distributed hashing. And then what problems did we have and how consistent hashing solves this problem.

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