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This thread has piqued my interest. I am curious if the people interested in distributed systems are closer to hobbyists or professionals using the ideas directly in their work.

Distributed systems fans of HN, why are you reading about distributed systems?

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I'm the OP. I'm working on unify and improving various Distributed Lock implementations for my employer. The first ugly fact is most of our currently implementations are not safe[0], and the second ugly fact, AFAIK, is the safe ones are slow. I'm trying to find something in between, or better.

[0]: https://martin.kleppmann.com/2016/02/08/how-to-do-distribute...

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