etcd[1] is a distributed key-value store with some interesting properties for making things like locking mechanisms. It's like zookeeper[2] except it uses the r

etcd[1] is a distributed key-value store with some interesting properties for making things like locking mechanisms. It's like zookeeper[2] except it uses the raft consensus algorithm[3][pdf] and is written in Go. [1]: https://github.com/coreos/etcd https://github.com/coreos/etcd [2]: http://zookeeper.apache.org/ http://zookeeper.apache.org/ [3]: https://ramcloud.stanford.edu/wiki/download/attachments/11370504/raft.pdf https://ramcloud.stanford.edu/wiki/download/attachments/1137...