15. Distributed Locking Is Only One Coordination Pattern By this point, we've established an important progression in how distributed systems handle coordination. A distributed lock is designed to solve a very specific problem: coordinating ownership of a resource across multiple machines.

Source: [Dev.to](https://dev.to/morpheus-vera/distributed-locking-in-practice-guarantees-failure-scenarios-and-better-alternatives-34-494m)

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