[LRUG] Consistent hashing

[Anthony Green]

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From: Paul Clifford
Subject: Consistent hashing

Interesting (and fairly short) post about consistent hashing, and how to use
it to avoid having your database fall over under load when adding or
removing caches:

http://www.spiteful.com/2008/03/17/programmers-toolbox-part-3-consistent-has
hing/ 


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