Today I get back into my post series about the Google Technology Stack, with a more detailed look at distributed dictionaries, AKA distributed key-value stores, AKA distributed hash tables. What we’d like to do is store a dictionary of key-value pairs [tex](k_1,v_1),(k_2,v_2),\ldots[/tex] across a cluster of computers, preferably in a way that makes it easy … Continue reading Consistent hashing