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What are the key considerations when designing a highly available distributed locking mechanism?

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  • Propose a high-level design for a lock service that can handle millions of concurrent lock requests.
  • What are the key considerations when designing a highly available distributed locking mechanism?
  • How would you architect a scalable distributed lock service for a microservices environment?
  • Create a locking service for distributed applications and databases.
  • Build a service to manage distributed locks and ensure consistency.
  • Design a system to manage locking across distributed services.
  • Create a distributed lock manager for synchronizing access.
  • Develop a service for managing distributed locking.
  • Design a system for managing a distributed lock service.
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