trivia ex-Akamai-ite here: Danny Lewin was one of the co-inventors of this. RIP.(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danny_Lewin http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danny_Lew

trivia ex-Akamai-ite here: Danny Lewin was one of the co-inventors of this. RIP.(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danny_Lewin http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danny_Lewin) link to original paper: http://www.akamai.com/dl/technical_publications/ConsistenHashingandRandomTreesDistributedCachingprotocolsforrelievingHotSpotsontheworldwideweb.pdf http://www.akamai.com/dl/technical_publications/ConsistenHas...