sharding with varnish: generating director identifier from an integer

[Per Buer]

Hi,

On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 3:52 PM, Enno van Amerongen <enno at tty.nl> wrote:

> **
> Hi List,
>
> My coworkers and I are working on a sharding VMOD and we got to the point
> it's actually working (woohoo!).
>
> Now, our implementation is pretty straightforward:
>
>  - get id from url
>  - do a "id mod n" to pick correct shard ( = director)
>  - set req.backend = shardN
>


Any particular reason you didn't use the client director? This is more or
less exactly what it does.

You would set client.identity to the ID you pick and Varnish will use a
hash algorithm to consistently pick a backend from the backends in the
director.


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