Memcached's consistent hashing is really its killer feature nowadays, but to put this into play you need large clusters of hosts where you expect regular rotati

Memcached's consistent hashing is really its killer feature nowadays, but to put this into play you need large clusters of hosts where you expect regular rotations in and out of the pool (hardware failure etc.). One of the links at the bottom of the article is a good overview: https://holmeshe.me/understanding-memcached-source-code-X-consistent-hashing/ https://holmeshe.me/understanding-memcached-source-code-X-co...