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How does HertzBeat achieve high-performance cluster scaling?
Scaling comes from several architectural decisions working together rather than one single mechanism.
- Horizontal collector scaling — new collector nodes join the pool and immediately start taking a share of jobs.
- Consistent hashing — job assignment spreads load evenly and minimizes reshuffling when the cluster changes size.
- Module isolation — a fault in one collector module doesn't cascade into the manager or other collectors.
- Manager high availability — multiple manager nodes can run simultaneously, with leader election coordinating master-slave scenarios.
- Netty-based async communication — manager-collector traffic uses non-blocking I/O instead of blocking request/response calls, which matters a lot once thousands of collectors are checking in.
Which mechanism keeps job reshuffling minimal as the cluster resizes?
Manager high availability is coordinated through:
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