Comment by mjb

Hey, this is my blog post! Great to see it here. Best-of-two is one of my favorite things. If you enjoy the simplicity of it, check out the related paper "How asymmetry helps load balancing" by Berthold Vöcking (https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/792538.792546).

Back in 2018 I wrote a follow-up to this, with a little more about the general balls-into-bins problem: http://brooker.co.za/blog/2018/01/01/balls-into-bins.html