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Your Distributed Lock Can Expire Correctly and Still Corrupt Data

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Two Workers Both Held the 'Only One' Lock. The Clock Was Never Synced.

<h2> The problem </h2> <p>We had a nightly billing-reconciliation job that was only supposed to run once. To enforce that across three worker instances, we did the standard thing:

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Distributed Locks vs. Leased Locks: The Right Choice in Resource

<h2> Distributed Locks and Leased Locks: Two Sides of Resource Management </h2> <p>In distributed systems, situations where multiple services try to access a shared resource

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