Login Password Aphyr Blog Photography Code Call me maybe: RabbitMQ RabbitMQ is a distributed message queue, and is probably the most popular open-source implementation of the AMQP messaging protocol. It supports a wealth of durability, routing, and fanout strategies, and combines excellent documentation with well-designed protocol extensions. I’d like to set all these wonderful properties aside for a few minutes, however, to talk about using your queue as a lock service. While I was working on building Knossos –Jepsen’s linearizability checker –a RabbitMQ blog post made the rounds of various news aggregators. In this post, the RabbitMQ team showed how one could turn RabbitMQ into a distributed mutex or semaphore service. I thought this was a little bit suspicious, because the RabbitMQ documentation is very clear that partitions invalidate essentially all Rab...