Usage

node ./main.js [number of consumers]

Example: node ./main.js 3

The General Idea

Let's say you have a bunch of consumers polling a changes feed. You want to divide the work between the consumers evenly, so you decide to base it on the documents' _id since they are just big hexidecimal numbers.

Flow

• Take in the results of /_uuids (from a file)
• Grab the last 4 characters of each id
• Converts that hex number to decimal
• Take the remainder of that decimal number divided by the number of nodes
• Output distribution