https://blog.mattwynne.net/2010/02/07/megamutex-a-distributed-mutex-for-ruby/ Matt Wynne taking it one tea at a time Wed, 21 Aug 2019 12:58:30 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2 https://blog.mattwynne.net/2010/02/07/megamutex-a-distributed-mutex-for-ruby/comment-page-1/#comment-2966 Sun, 09 Jun 2013 20:27:02 +0000 http://blog.mattwynne.net/2010/02/07/megamutex-a-distributed-mutex-for-ruby/#comment-2966 I’m curious why you ended up using memcached for a lock instead of using a database lock column? Were you using a DB that doesn’t have locking?

]]> https://blog.mattwynne.net/2010/02/07/megamutex-a-distributed-mutex-for-ruby/comment-page-1/#comment-897 Sun, 07 Feb 2010 11:47:41 +0000 http://blog.mattwynne.net/2010/02/07/megamutex-a-distributed-mutex-for-ruby/#comment-897 Nice, I did the same thing for cross-server coordination, shared mutexes using memcache 🙂

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