I’m not sure why folks are finding this so revolutionary. There are teams of scientists at big techs with PhDs working on all kinds of optimization across compu

I’m not sure why folks are finding this so revolutionary. There are teams of scientists at big techs with PhDs working on all kinds of optimization across compute fleets. This seems cute but its exposition of math is more along the lines of “look at how cool I am that I could do a bit of calculus”, and that makes me question the technical depth at CF. I found the motivation pretty lackluster: nowhere does it actually explain why you use consistent hashing (dividing the item space naively/regularly would actually cause much more than 1/n items to move, which is unintuitive) and how you actually use it. That said, it got me to spend a few minutes studying this and got me to understand the key bit I was missing.