Consistent Hashing | Algorithms You Should Know #1

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Amazing video! Can you make a video comparing this to Rendezvous Hashing please.

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Service mesh.

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I really liked that explanation. I didn't know that server are also using the same hash function. And this workaround with virtual nodes is awesome

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The illustration is the best I have seen for the virtual nodes. Thank you so much for the clear explanation.

[@ByteByteGo]

What algorithms should we talk about next?

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Can you please cover architectural design patterns like Saga etc?

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cryptographic algorithms? Huffman, RSA etc

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Bloom Filter

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Bloom Filter or hash function under the hoods

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Thank you for the feedback. We’ll definitely make more videos like this. Let us know if you have specific topics you’d like to see.

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Found this via a Hacker News post. While I don't have any background in computer science, your explanation of the implementation approaches, issues, leading to virtual nodes in consistent hashing was clear and made sense to me. Thank you!

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Thank you for the feedback. We agree videos augment text and they could be very useful. The chapter length videos take a lot of efforts to make. We will try to make one once a month, or maybe every two months.

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Finally, I was able to understand what consistent hashing is!!!

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