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Load balancing, Hashtables and Consistent Hashing

I may be wrong, but at the core of this is technical and scientific excellence, and in addressing problems with new methods, or by using existing methods in new ways. Too often, technologists just focus on the methods they know and then try and match these to the problem, but a true innovator finds the tools/methods which fit the problem. So, let’s look at something that disrupted and trace its roots…