I put this up on github a couple of days ago:
https://github.com/errorception/redis-lock

It's an implementation of a locking primitive using redis. It's great
for when you want to ensure that you don't run into concurrency issues
when using the node event loop heavily, or with multiple instances of
node. It doesn't block the event loop at all, yet ensures that your
functions execute in order (across processes), to ensure integrity.
it's kinda niche, but when you need it you need it badly. I've been
using this myself on http://errorception.com kinda heavily, and it
seems to do the job very well. I've tried hard to keep the API real
simple - just one function call! Depends on Redis, because I wanted
the lock to be sitting out of the node process, so that multiple
(node) processes can find out about it.

Feedback welcome, of course. Let me know what you think. (My first
node thing on github! Also, my first github thing! :D )

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Mumbai, India.
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