Design a Distributed Lock Manager (like Chubby)

This lesson designs a Distributed Lock Manager (DLM) similar to Google's Chubby. A lock is a permission that only one holder can have at a time, and a distributed lock lets many separate servers agree on who has that permission. The design is small in size, but every answer it gives must be correct, because other systems act on those answers without checking them.

1. Problem Definition and Scope

We are designing a distributed lock service and coordination system