How to do distributed locking — Martin Kleppmann's blog
As part of the research for my book, I came across an algorithm called Redlock on the Redis website. The algorithm claims to implement fault-tolerant distributed locks (or rather, leases [1]) on top of Redis, and the page asks for feedback from people who are into distributed systems. The algorithm instinctively set off some alarm bells in the back of my mind, so I spent a bit of time thinking about it and writing up these notes.
Since there are already over 10 independent implementations of Redlock and we don't know who is already relying on this algorithm, I thought it would be worth sharing my notes publicly. I won't go into other aspects of Redis, some of which have already been critiqued elsewhere.
Before I go into the details of Redlock, let me say that I quite like Redis, and I have successfully used it in production in the past. I think it's a good fit in situations where you want to share some transient, approximate, fast-changing data between servers, and where it's not a big deal if you occasionally lose that data for whatever reason. For example, a good use case is maintaining request counters per IP address (for rate limiting purposes) and sets of distinct IP addresses per user ID (for abuse detection).
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