Hello, an early adopter, contributor, and well known hacker replied to your question better that I'm able to do I think: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=511

Hello, an early adopter, contributor, and well known hacker replied to your question better that I'm able to do I think: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=511978 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=511978 I hope Python/PHP/Erlang bindings will follow the example of the Ruby bindings implementing consistent hashing ASAP but probably there is to take into account this 'hashing tag' thing discussed in the sorting article.