redsync

Redsync

Redsync provides a Redis-based distributed mutual exclusion lock implementation for Go as described in this post. A reference library (by antirez) for Ruby is available at github.com/antirez/redlock-rb.

Installation

Install Redsync using the go get command:

$ go get github.com/go-redsync/redsync/v4

Two driver implementations will be installed; however, only the one used will be included in your project.

• Redigo
• Go-redis

See the examples folder for usage of each driver.

Documentation

• Reference

Usage

Error handling is simplified to panic for shorter example.

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Contributing

Contributions are welcome.

License

Redsync is available under the BSD (3-Clause) License.

Disclaimer

This code implements an algorithm which is currently a proposal, it was not formally analyzed. Make sure to understand how it works before using it in production environments.

Real World Uses

Below is a list of public, open source projects that use Redsync:

• Sourcegraph: Universal code search and intelligence platform. Uses Redsync in an internal cache implementation.
• Open Match by Google: Flexible, extensible, and scalable video game matchmaking. Uses Redsync with its state store implementation.
• Gocron by go-co-op: gocron is a job distributed scheduling package which lets you run Go functions at pre-determined intervals using a simple, human-friendly syntax. Uses Redsync with its distributed job scheduler implementation.

If you are using Redsync in a project please send a pull request to add it to the list.