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- Posted on Wednesday February 22, 2023
This is a guest article by NK. You can view the original article Consistent hashing explained on systemdesign.one website.
How does consistent hashing work?
At a high level, consistent hashing performs the following operations:
The output of the hash function is placed on a virtual ring structure (known as the hash ring)
The hashed IP ... Continue Reading » - Posted on Friday December 16, 2022
DALL-E picture generated from the answer.
I was curious, given all the ChatGPT love, what it would make of some of our favorite topics. I was both impressed and unimpressed.
Impressed. ChatGPT instantly generated an response that might make a good answer in a Miss Universe contest. You know, the kind of ... Continue Reading » - Posted on Friday December 02, 2022
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1958: An engineer wiring an early IBM computer 2021: An engineer wiring an early IBM quantum computer. @enclanglement
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I'm proud to announce a completely updated and expanded version of Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10! This version adds 2x more coverage, with special coverage ... Continue Reading » - Posted on Monday October 24, 2022
There's a move to regulate cloud providers by vertically separating the services they offer.
Like railroads of yore, who were not allowed to provide freight services on top of their base services, cloud providers would not be allowed to provide services on top of their base platform services.
Vertical separation would be ... Continue Reading » - Posted on Monday July 11, 2022
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Every cell a universe. Most detailed image of a human cell to date. @microscopicture
Other images considered: one byte of RAM in 1946; visual guide on troubleshooting Kubernetes; Cloudflare using lava lamps to generate cryptographic keys; 5MB of data looked like in 1966
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Love this ... Continue Reading » - Posted on Friday January 28, 2022
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Think your software diagram is complex? This is a single cell modeled using X-ray, nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), and cryo-electron microscopy datasets. Gael McGill
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Yeah, the poll() function is broken on MacOS and therefore is not supported in Python for the Mac.The select library supports other polling mechanisms; it essentially exposes whatever the OS supports. Let me look into an update to the code that will use kevent on Macs.