One Pager Cheat Sheet

• Uber leverages Ringpop to make its network architecture fault-tolerant and scalable.
• Ringpop's membership protocol, based on SWIM (Scalable Weakly-consistent Infection-style process group Membership protocol), helps nodes to discover and communicate changes across clusters quickly and consistently.
• Ringpop's Consistent Hashing and FarmHash allow for fast, efficient rebalancing of application clusters to ensure even distribution of traffic with logarithmic run-time complexity.
• Ringpop enables the forwarding of requests between nodes, enabling the system to detect new nodes and reorganize into a hash ring for even distribution of requests.
• Ringpop uses a hash table instead of AVL trees to provide faster performance in O(1) time complexity while still evenly distributing all nodes in a cluster.