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Sensei on the Road

Drive-time deep dives on system design, software engineering, and machine learning. One topic per episode, no code-reading required.

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Consistent Hashing — System Design on the Road, Ep. 01

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Why plain modulo hashing wrecks your cache when servers change, how the hash ring fixes it, and why virtual nodes matter. Written for the ear.