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by skynet-9000 1878 days ago
I'm picturing the same, but my guess is that it's using a time-synced serializability graph or MVCC in some way.

However, even a "basic" distributed lock system (like a consistently-hashed in-memory DB, sharded across reliable servers) might provide both the scale and single source of truth that's needed. The difficulty arises when one of those servers has a hiccup.

It'd be a delicious irony if it was based on hardware like an old-school mainframe or something like that.