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Distributed Locking with Redlock

Updated May 4, 2026

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Coordinating resource access across multiple server instances.

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Uses the Redlock algorithm to ensure mutual exclusion across distributed workers. Python's 'redis-py' combined with a TTL (Time-To-Live) prevents deadlocks if a worker crashes.

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