TechEcho

In Azure, we solve this with leasing blobs and always renewing, and additionally checking ETags when writing.

Discussed at the time: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11059738" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11059738</a>

And the reply from the author of Redis: <a href="http://antirez.com/news/101" rel="nofollow">http://antirez.com/news/101</a>

Seems more like “how not to...”<p>> Conclusion - I think the Redlock algorithm is a poor choice...

Best book on distributed systems out there! It's one of the books that made go into that area of computer science.

Why is "how to do distributed locking" not "setnx in Redis with timeouts/retries"?

Is lockService in this example a single machine or a cluster of machines ?

In Azure, we solve this with leasing blobs and always renewing, and additionally checking ETags when writing.

Discussed at the time: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11059738" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11059738</a>

And the reply from the author of Redis: <a href="http://antirez.com/news/101" rel="nofollow">http://antirez.com/news/101</a>

Seems more like “how not to...”<p>> Conclusion - I think the Redlock algorithm is a poor choice...

Best book on distributed systems out there! It's one of the books that made go into that area of computer science.

Why is "how to do distributed locking" not "setnx in Redis with timeouts/retries"?

Is lockService in this example a single machine or a cluster of machines ?

How to Do Distributed Locking (2016)