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Distributed Locking advanced

Three designs need distributed locks: a nightly report, a per-customer state machine, and a global config reload. For each, is a lock the right answer?

2 min answer lockingpartitioningidempotencydesign

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Three designs need distributed locks: a nightly report, a per-customer state machine, and a global config reload. For each, is a lock the right answer?