
Designing Data-Intensive Applications – Partitioning
Coding Blocks
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How to Partition a Key Using Hashing Functions
In the early days of google, gougle ran on whatever they could get their hands on. The first computer that at stanford that was used to house it a custom made enclosure made from mega blocks. What if you partitiond by hashing the key? So this is one of the ways to avoid the skew and the hot spots. And thenal right, so i i just sent you a picture as well. Il include it in the show notes as well.
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