https://system-design.devops-monk.com/tags/consistent-hashing/Recent content in Consistent-Hashing on System DesignHugoen-usSat, 30 May 2026 18:00:00 +0000https://system-design.devops-monk.com/2026/05/design-consistent-hashing/Sat, 30 May 2026 18:00:00 +0000https://system-design.devops-monk.com/2026/05/design-consistent-hashing/Imagine you are the infrastructure engineer at a hot social media platform. Your system is humming along with 4 cache servers, each holding about 25% of your data. Life is good. Then your platform goes viral overnight. You urgently add a 5th server. You restart everything. And suddenly, your database is on fire — every single cache server is getting a tsunami of cache misses. Users experience 10× slower page loads.