Tuesday, August 11, 2009

The Future of an Illusion on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

The Future of an Illusion on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
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Distributed Hash Tables (part 2)

This is the second (and last) installment of a small personal study of distributed hash tables. The first one was focused on consistent hashing and the Chord DHT, check it out for more context. Kademlia Kademlia scales very well mostly because its design taps into the lessons learned by existing peer to peer networks. Which also makes it more complex and a little less elegant than Chord, feeling more like a set of heuristics rather than a single nice algorithm…
Distributed Hash Tables (part 2)

This is the second (and last) installment of a small personal study of distributed hash tables. The first one was focused on consistent hashing and the Chord DHT, check it out for more context. Kademlia Kademlia scales very well mostly because its design taps into the lessons learned by existing peer to peer networks. Which also makes it more complex and a little less elegant than Chord, feeling more like a set of heuristics rather than a single nice algorithm…