Chubby: The Google distributed lock managerGoogle has released a new OSDI 2006 paper, "The Chubby Lock Service for Loosely-Coupled Distributed Systems". From the paper:Chubby is a distributed lock service intended for coarse-grained synchronization of activities within Google's distributed systems. Chubby has become Google's primary internal name service; it is a common rendezvous mechanism for systems such as MapReduce; the storage system
