/tags/hashing/ Recent content in hashing on chrismoos Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us © 2020 Chris Moos Sat, 04 Jun 2011 16:49:11 +0000 /2011/06/04/libhashring-high-performance-consistent-hashing/ Sat, 04 Jun 2011 16:49:11 +0000 /2011/06/04/libhashring-high-performance-consistent-hashing/ In a previous post I talked about the need to shard Redis data and how I accomplished this by adding shard/hashing support to erldis, an Erlang client for Redis. This solution proved to work well, it distributed our data very well amongst many Redis servers – but there was one problem. Performance. In the change I made to erldis, the hash ring was stored in ETS (an erlang memory store) and anytime a key was hashed, the ring had to be retrieved from ETS.