Distributed Systems Pattern: Lease

Cluster nodes need exclusive access to certain resources. But nodes can crash; they can be temporarily disconnected or experiencing a process pause. Under these error scenarios, they should not keep the access to a resource indefinitely.

more… https://martinfowler.com/articles/patterns-of-distributed-systems/time-bound-lease.html

Created 4y | Jan 13, 2021, 4:20:30 PM


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