Micheal Phelps vs Cavic from a under water Camera

Peer to Peer Lookup using Consistent Hashing and Virtual Nodes

It took a long time for me to understand the relationship between Consistent Hashing and Virtual Nodes.

Consitent Hashing and Virtual Nodes. Paper
Chord: A Scalable Peer-to-peer Lookup Service for Internet Applications

Consitent Hashing Paper
Consistent Hashing and Random Trees: Distributed Caching Protocols for Relieving Hot Spots on the World Wide Web

Consistent Hashing and Virtual Nodes

Amazon’s Dynamo DB uses consistent hashing with virtual nodes to locate nodes and keys in the dynamo ring.
Dynamo: Amazon’s Highly Available Key-value Store