Process Sync

Issues

• Mutual Exclusion: no two process execution in critical section

• Progress : no indefinite postpone while selection of process enter to critical section

• Bounded Waiting : no starvation

Synchronization is bad for

Scalability

Synchronization is bad for scale

In the early days of Mailgun I started working on a distributed lock service. Something I had worked on briefly at Rackspace. Even as I implemented the thing, I had the sneaky suspicion that it was a bad idea.

https://wippler.dev/posts/synchronization-is-bad-for-scale