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Consistent Hashing medium

In a consistent hashing ring without VNodes, Node A fails. Its load shifts entirely to Node B (Successor). Node B becomes overloaded and fails. This shifts 2x load to Node C... What does this describe?

  1. A Split Brain, where two halves of the cluster drift apart and eventually corrupt the shared global state metadata.
  2. B Cascading Failure (Domino Effect), where the failure of one node overloads the next, leading to a cluster-wide outage.
  3. C Deadlock, where the remaining nodes spend all their CPU cycles attempting to negotiate new data ownership boundaries.
  4. D Race Condition, where multiple clients attempt to write to the same key during the initial convergence of the ring.

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