Show HN: A Golang Package for Consistent Hashing with Bounded Loads

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Post by khalidlafi » Sun, Jun 11, 2017, 5:32 AM UTC

Show HN: A Golang Package for Consistent Hashing with Bounded Loads
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Re: Show HN: A Golang Package for Consistent Hashing with Bounded Loads

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Post by khalidlafi » Sun, Jun 11, 2017, 5:35 AM UTC

Hi, i'm the author of this package.

I wrote it because i couldn't implement Consistent Hashing With Bounded Loads over any pre-existing golang consistent hashing packages in a clean way.

Here's the ugly code that made me into doing it: https://github.com/lafikl/liblb/blob/c9c4544834ac7ae7fa6a9cd...

Re: Show HN: A Golang Package for Consistent Hashing with Bounded Loads

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Post by tyingq » Sun, Jun 11, 2017, 1:35 PM UTC

Initially confused by the title...I thought "loads" was maybe the payload data being hashed.

I see now though...it's an approach to use a hash to decide which destination host to select...from a group of hosts used for load balancing.

Re: Show HN: A Golang Package for Consistent Hashing with Bounded Loads

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Post by kkirsche » Sun, Jun 11, 2017, 1:54 PM UTC

tyingq wrote: post #3

Initially confused by the title...I thought "loads" was maybe the payload data being hashed. I see now though...it's an approach to use a hash to decide which destination host to select...from a group of hosts used for load balancing.

Sounds like hashing used in network protocols for things like LACP

Re: Show HN: A Golang Package for Consistent Hashing with Bounded Loads

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Post by amerine » Sun, Jun 11, 2017, 11:20 PM UTC

khalidlafi wrote: post #2

Hi, i'm the author of this package. I wrote it because i couldn't implement Consistent Hashing With Bounded Loads over any pre-existing golang consistent hashing packages in a clean way. Here's the ugly code that made me into doing it: https://github.com/lafikl/liblb/blob/c9c4544834ac7ae7fa6a9cd...

Thanks for sharing!