!!! Overview [1]
[{$pagename}] is designed for use within a loosely-coupled [Distributed system] consisting of moderately large numbers of small machines connected by a high-speed network. 

[{$pagename}] service provides the ability over [Asynchronous Operation] and allows its clients to [Replication] of their activities and to achieve [Consensus] on basic information about their environment.

[{$pagename}] allows the election of a master and to allow the master to discover the servers it controls, and to permit clients to find the master.

While this could be done with a library that provides [Distributed Consensus], a [lock] server makes it easier to maintain existing program structure and [communication] patterns.

!! More Information
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* [#1] - [The Chubby lock service for loosely-coupled distributed systems|https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.com/en//archive/chubby-osdi06.pdf|target='_blank'] - based on information obtained 2018-02-05-