Overthinking it and the value of simple solutions

“Use the simplest tools possible and not get overwhelmed by the technology” ~ J-Zone

This is where Lockjaw comes in - it’s a small library which exposes Postgres’ advisory locks as a pluggable Component.

With a simple solution to the locking problem, plugging it into the rest of the system was pretty straightforward. In fact, our existing scheduler component - Eternity did not require any changes.

Both Eternity and Lockjaw are open sourced, and you can check them out (and use :-)) on our GitHub page.

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