F1 Consistent Hashing & Partitioning

The backbone of every distributed system at Meta scale

Master consistent hashing: the hash ring, virtual nodes, rebalancing on node add/remove, and bounded-load variants. Then connect it to real Meta use cases — Memcache shard routing, TAO partition assignment, rate limiter bucket distribution, and Kafka partition assignment.

Estimated time: 15 minutes

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