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Re:A distributed locking library built on top of Cloud Spann... by leajkinUnk on Friday October 08, 2021 @02:18PM (#28802345)
From what I remember, Chubby was one of those services that was a bit more sensitive to poor client behavior. You could cause problems for other users with poor Chubby behavior, and you could accidentally end up with code that causes a high Chubby load.
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Re:A distributed locking library built on top of Cloud Spann... by gravypod on Friday October 08, 2021 @04:17PM (#28803702)
(Opinions are my own)

Chubby is a lot like etcd except without the hindsight. Distributed locking is pretty complicated and if I remember correctly there was a great podcast from Google's Kube podcast about distributed locking that goes into a lot of this. [0]

If you are going to do any distributed locking I strongly recommend listening to it. Has a lot of pain points discussed.

[0] - https://kubernetespodcast.com/episode/123-leader-election/

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Re:A distributed locking library built on top of Cloud Spann... by lokar on Friday October 08, 2021 @04:47PM (#28803991)
Chubby depends on clients using a complex library for full correctness.
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