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Re:Show HN: Lockable – sync locks for distributed systems by wizwit999 on Thursday June 16, 2022 @09:10AM (#31765637)
I recall using https://github.com/awslabs/amazon-dynamodb-lock-client previously, this is basically a managed version. Interesting.
Re:Show HN: Lockable – sync locks for distributed systems by keyless_ on Thursday June 16, 2022 @10:19AM (#31766336)
Indeed, the first version of this heavily borrowed from this approach.

The trickiest part is correctly writing the logic that spawns the secondary thread used for heartbeats.