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Google’s Bigtable Distributed Storage System, Pt. I
Google rolls out new applications to millions of users with surprising frequency, which is pretty amazing all by itself. Yet when you look at the variety of the applications, ranging from data-sucking behemoths like webcrawling to intimate apps like Personalized Search and Writely it is even more startling. How does the Google architecture manage the conflicting requirements of such a wide range of workloads?
Next up in the toolbox series is an idea so good it deserves an entire article all to itself: consistent hashing.
Programmer’s Toolbox Part 3: Consistent Hashing « tomkleinpeter.com
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