1. A method comprising: providing, to multiple clients, shared metadata that associates individual byte sequences of a plurality of byte sequences with a single server of a plurality of servers; after providing the shared metadata, receiving, by the plurality of servers, a plurality of requests associated with the plurality of byte sequences, wherein requests for individual byte sequences are received directly at the single server associated with the individual byte sequence from one or more of the multiple clients based on the shared metadata, and wherein the requests for individual byte sequences are for one or more operations that require coordination between the multiple clients; and serially processing the plurality of requests at the plurality of servers, wherein the plurality of servers perform the processing in parallel with respect to each other.