Also relevant: http://highscalability.com/blog/2014/8/4/tumblr-hashing-your-way-to-handling-23000-blog-requests-per.html http://highscalability.com/blog/2014/8/

Also relevant: http://highscalability.com/blog/2014/8/4/tumblr-hashing-your-way-to-handling-23000-blog-requests-per.html http://highscalability.com/blog/2014/8/4/tumblr-hashing-your... Note the bits on the sdbm hashing algorithm and how they found it to have less collisions than others, then went on so far as to add a patch for it to haproxy.