In a followup post he explains why actually almost the opposite is true - split your buckets into 2 groups, pick a random A and B from each group and if it's a

In a followup post he explains why actually almost the opposite is true - split your buckets into 2 groups, pick a random A and B from each group and if it's a draw, always load A first. This means buckets in the B group will likely be 1 less loaded than servers in the A group. https://medium.com/@mihsathe/load-balancing-a-very-counterintuitive-improvement-to-the-best-of-k-algorithm-608ffbdb7c8a https://medium.com/@mihsathe/load-balancing-a-very-counterin...