Hashing

Interesting article on Hash Functions 

Consistent Hashing is a strategy used in system design esp. in scaling the backend data stores.  The typical hash based sharding used to horizontally scale the databases doesn't handle the adding/removing of shards in efficient manner. Consistent hash sharding takes care of that. 

Here is a nice article comparing different sharding strategies.

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