It looks as though the approach proposed in the article is random, rather than a...

maffydub on June 27, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: When Simple Wins: Power of 2 Load Balancing

It looks as though the approach proposed in the article is random, rather than attempting to use consistent hashing (as Vimeo investigated) - that may be why the results the Vimeo engineers found are worse than those the artcile suggests?