If it ain’t broke, make it faster.
I’m writing a sharding StatsD proxy as a way to learn the Rust programming language. This is just a toy project, but I’m treating it as if it were something I’d run in production where I care about performance.
This proxy can be used to spread StatsD message load across N downstream servers (ie. Telegraf with the StatsD input plugin). However, due to the way metrics are stored in a timeseries database like InfluxDB, we need to ensure consistent hashing.
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