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Rendezvous

An introduction to rendezvous hashing in distributed system.

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Franco Fernando
Mar 23, 2024
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Rendezvous Hashing

Hi Friends,

Welcome to the 64th issue of the Polymathic Engineer newsletter.

This week, we talk about an interesting hashing strategy that can be used in distributed systems: rendezvous hashing.

Most people are familiar with consistent hashing, which we discussed in the 5th issue of our newsletter. Rendezvous hashing is a less-known ha…

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