Comment on Ask HN: What's your favorite technical paper?Comments−haneyOP3yI read The Dynamo paper [1] early in my career and its use of consistent hashing inspired me to use similar approaches in systems I've developed.1. https://s3.amazonaws.com/systemsandpapers/papers/amazon-dyna...−birdymcbird3yEnglish is not my native language. I read this paper a few times over past decade but never quite understood how consistent hashing actually works at scale as nodes go offline and get replaced.
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I read The Dynamo paper [1] early in my career and its use of consistent hashing inspired me to use similar approaches in systems I've developed.
1. https://s3.amazonaws.com/systemsandpapers/papers/amazon-dyna...
English is not my native language. I read this paper a few times over past decade but never quite understood how consistent hashing actually works at scale as nodes go offline and get replaced.