vasanthk

System Design Cheatsheet

Picking the right architecture = Picking the right battles + Managing trade-offs

Basic Steps

1. Clarify and agree on the scope of the system

• User cases (description of sequences of events that, taken together, lead to a system doing something useful)
  • Who is going to use it?
  • How are they going to use it?

reorx

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
"""
    hash_ring
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    Implements consistent hashing that can be used when
    the number of server nodes can increase or decrease (like in memcached).

    Consistent hashing is a scheme that provides a hash table functionality
    in a way that the adding or removing of one slot
    does not significantly change the mapping of keys to slots.