Network traffic distribution

[kporter]

This is typically observed in scenarios with a hot key.

You may be able to improve the situation by using the feature discussed here:

How to manage traffic spike for single data item?

Distributing reads across proles is on the java client roadmap, but it’s not the panacea you might perceive it to be. Here are some reasons why: Only reads could possibly benefit. Writes must always go to master, even for hot keys. The read-modify-write paradigm can result in more generation errors if prole reads are allowed. If a key is read from a prole while simultaneously being updated by some other thread/client, the generation could change on master before prole. Therefore, the f…