Simon Willison’s Weblog

Distributed lock on top of memcached. A simple Python context manager (taking advantage of the with statement) that implements a distributed lock using memcached to store lock state: “memcached_lock can be used to ensure that some global data is only updated by one server”. Redis would work well for this kind of thing as well.

# 1st February 2010, 10:15 am / concurrency, contextmanager, locking, memcached, plurk, python, redis, with