Did anyone else ever publish a meaningful response? I thought Antirez's response was reasonable but I also recognize the inherent bias. I'd love to see responses from other experts, ideally written such that non-experts can reasonably understand.

Thanks, I learned the fencing token lock algorithm from this.

Let me be clear, I think redis is a well engineered piece of software and I have been constantly impressed with the way antirez runs the project.

Specifically for the question of a locking service, I need more availability than what a single node can offer. I'm not sure if you are advocating for using redis cluster as a locking service, but since it intentionally doesn't offer write safety during a partition that does not seem advisable.