bsm/redislock

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1767 stars · 165 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

A Go library providing a simplified distributed locking implementation built on Redis. It supports obtaining, refreshing, releasing, and TTL-checking locks, plus fencing tokens for safe lock-loss mitigation.

Use cases

• implement distributed locks across multiple service instances
• prevent concurrent cron jobs from running twice
• coordinate access to a shared resource using Redis
• add fencing tokens to distributed locking
• acquire and refresh locks with TTL in Go
• build a mutex backed by Redis

When to choose

• you need a small, focused distributed lock library for Go with Redis
• you want fencing token support to guard against GC-pause lock loss
• you already use go-redis and want a simple Obtain/Refresh/Release API

When to avoid

• you need multi-node consensus locking without trusting a single Redis instance (e.g. Redlock across clusters)
• your project is not in Go
• you need locks persisted outside Redis

Facets

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caching concurrency database-driver databases microservices developer-tools go windows self-hosted redis distributed-lock golang fencing-tokens mutex synchronization linux macos docker

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