Using Tooz Locking Abstraction

Picking the right distributed lock mechanism once and for all for your application is not necessarily an obvious choice. Consider these factors:

First, some solutions are heavier than others to deploy and maintain. For example, installing a memcached server is pretty straightforward, but maintaining a ZooKeeper cluster is much more complicated. Clearly, the two solutions are not strictly equivalent in terms of safety and guaranteed operation. However, as a developer, it might be handy to test using a small backend and operate at scale with a scalable backend.

Secondly, it is not always obvious which solution to pick. A few years ago, ZooKeeper ...