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Re:Cassandra is not row level consistent by dpark on Friday November 25, 2016 @12:54PM (#13038522)
I'll have to see if I can dig some of the responses up. It bugs me that I still don't know if this algorithm is actually safe.
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Re:Cassandra is not row level consistent by SEJeff on Friday November 25, 2016 @05:43PM (#13040383)
Honestly given Antirez's response I'm genuinely surprised no one has written a TLA+ or similar formal verification proof. Then the outcome is binary; either redlock is sound and works as expected, or it is not.

Amazon's AWS Architect, James Hamilton is a big fan of this approach, as are most of the heavyweights in distributed systems:

http://perspectives.mvdirona.com/2014/07/challenges-in-desig...

EDIT: prefaced URL with http

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