Saving another 100TB of RAM with math (and Rust)

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This allows us to relate tasks and servers to each other in a consistent way. That means the solution to any consistent hashing problem can only be more hashes. This allows us to set a “weight” for each server, which scales the number of hashes associated with that server.

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