Consistent Hashing and Random Trees: Distributed Caching Protocols for Relieving Hot Spots on the World Wide Web

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There are two things I know, that are born with this paper, one is term Consistent Hashing while the other is the CDN company, Akamai

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consistent_hashing is currently used by popular databases like Cassandra, DynamoDB

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