Introduction Before diving into the concept of a distributed countdown latch, it’s essential to first understand what countdown latches are and how they function. Countdown Latches Countdown latches are concurrency constructs used in computing to allow one or more threads… Read More »Implementing a Distributed Countdown Latch
Distributed locks are a critical concept in the world of distributed systems, necessary for maintaining data consistency, coordination, and synchronization across various nodes of a system. They serve as a concurrency control mechanism to restrict multiple processes from accessing or modifying shared resources simultaneously. In this post, we take a look at a few ways to implement a distributed locks using redis, zookeeper and etcd.