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How Consistent Hashing Powers Distributed Systems

A deep dive into the algorithm that lets Cassandra, DynamoDB, and Redis Cluster route keys without reshuffling the entire keyspace.

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Designing Tic-Tac-Toe: A Low-Level Design Walkthrough

A complete object-oriented design for Tic-Tac-Toe — a playable board, the full class model (players, board, pluggable rules), an O(1) win check, a codeable interface you can implement, and the patterns that scale it to N×N, K-in-a-row, and bots.

Jul 24, 2026·12 min read

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