Marc Brooker personal blog
The power of two random choices
In many large-scale web services, multiple layers of stateless and stateful services are seperated by load balancers. Load balancing can be done with dedicated hardware, with dedicated software load balancers, using DNS trickery or through a load-balancing mechanism in the client. In large systems, the resources and…
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Math & AlgorithmsSystems & Performance2024
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| Submitted | Title on HN | Points | Comments |
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| Feb 7, 2024 | The power of two random choices by mfiguiere | 139 | 33 |
| Aug 18, 2025 | The power of two random choices (2012) by signa11 | 69 | 10 |
| Oct 24, 2020 | The power of two random choices by zdw | 68 | 6 |
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Linked from 12 Hacker News comments by 9 different people, from Apr 2017 to Aug 2026.
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- ball_of_lint · Aug 17, 2026
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