DynamoDB/sync
This package is designed to emulate the behaviour of pkg/sync on top of Amazon's DynamoDB. If you need a distributed locking mechanism, consider using this package and DynamoDB before standing up paxos or Zookeeper.
Create a DynamoDB table named Locks.
$ export AWS_ACCESS_KEY=access
$ export AWS_SECRET_KEY=secret// ./main.go
package main
import(
"time"
"github.com/ryandotsmith/ddbsync"
)
func main() {
m := new(ddbsync.Mutex)
m.Name = "some-name"
m.Ttl = 10 * time.Second
m.Lock()
defer m.Unlock()
// do important work here
return
}$ go get github.com/ryandotsmith/ddbsync
$ go run main.go