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Architecture Patterns

Distributed Locks, Leases, and Fencing Tokens

Distributed locks coordinate processes so only one does a critical operation at a time - but getting them right is surprisingly hard because of clock skew and process pauses.

Mutual ExclusionDistributed ConsensusAtomic OperationsIdempotenceLease ManagementFencing TokenZooKeeperRedisetcdKafka

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