If the token value is the same across heterogenous nodes, it means that
each node gets a (roughly) equivalent amount of data and work to do. So
the bigger servers would be under-utilized.
My answer so far to varied hardware getting out of hand is a periodic
hardware refresh and "datacenter" migra
One of the advantages of faster streaming in 4.0+ is that it’s now very much
viable to do this entirely with bootstraps and decoms in the same DC, when you
have use cases where you can’t just change DC names
Vnodes will cause more compaction than single token, but you can just add in
all the ex
