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David Karger

1967–

MIT professor · co-founder Akamai

Gave us

Consistent hashing (1997 thesis with collaborators). The Akamai CDN.

The story

Karger's consistent-hashing paper was originally about CDN load distribution. Today the same idea is in every distributed cache, KV store, and shard router.

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