Staged deployment of rendezvous tables in a content delivery network (cdn)

A computer-implemented method in a content delivery network (CDN), wherein said CDN delivers content on behalf of at least one content provider, and wherein the CDN includes a rendezvous system that selects CDN servers for clients, the method comprising:

• in response to a request by a rendezvous mechanism in said rendezvous system, evaluating a first given function;
• and
• based on the outcome of said evaluating, said rendezvous mechanism using either a first table or a second table, wherein
• said first given function is indicative of a transition rate from using said first table to using said second table, wherein
• said first table was generated by a first table generation mechanism, is wherein
• said second table was generated by a second table generation mechanism, and wherein
• said first given function evaluates to either a first value or a second value.