How To Create a Consistent Hasher Using PHP

Consistent hashing is a mechanism used by various NoSQL databases, most notably Amazon's Dynamo, to partition requests to servers within a cluster. Consistent hashing has some special properties that make it very useful to distributed clusters. Specifically, consistent hashing allows for the addition and removal of servers from the cluster without having to rehash old values. This allows for incremental scalability.

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