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In a weird way I almost think it's almost easier to explain by looking at what a Distributed Hash Table is and why might you need/want one (in general terms) fi

In a weird way I almost think it's almost easier to explain by looking at what a Distributed Hash Table is and why might you need/want one (in general terms) first, and then looking at algorithms rather than starting from a basic Hash Table and just jumping to Consistent Hashing. (I think consistent hashing is not ideally named, personally.) That said, I think the author does a good job of doing exactly that.

AkshatM 10y ago
As the author: thank you! The reason why I built it bottom-up is because I understand novitiates learn to reason bottom-up, not yet having had familiarity with the forest to appreciate the trees, whereas experts (those brave woodland explorers) know the lay of the land enough to notice the variations. That's not to say it's not suitable - just maybe not the audience I had in mind.