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16 Jul 2026, 04:15 amvia dev.to
Two Workers Both Held the 'Only One' Lock. The Clock Was Never Synced.
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The problem
We had a nightly billing-reconciliation job that was only supposed to run once. To enforce that across three worker instances, we did the standard thing: grab a Redis lock with SET lock:reconcile before starting, relea…
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