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 Ringpop
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-Ringpop is a library that brings cooperation and coordination to distributed applications.
+Ringpop is a library that maintains a consistent hash ring atop a membership protocol. It can be used by applications to arbitrarily shard data in a scalable and fault-tolerant manner.
 
-Interested? Start with the Getting Started section below.
+To find out more, head to the Getting Started section below.
 
 .. toctree::
    :maxdepth: 2