Simon Willison’s Weblog

Consistent Hashing. Beautifully clear explanation of consistent hashing, a simple technique that allows you to add new caching servers to a cluster without re-hashing your keys and hence invalidating all of your caches.

# 1 am / caching, consistenthashing, hashing, scaling

Open Tech 2008—5th July in London. Awesome—I still have happy memories of the last Open Tech (back in 2005), very excited about this one. Once again, it’s only a fiver to get in.

# 1:03 am / conferences, events, opentech, opentech2008