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The pivotal discussion centers about problems with locks it seems.
>https://coreos.com/blog/etcd-3.2-announcement
>One advantage of a consistent distributed key value store like etcd is it can coordinate and synchronize distributed systems. Typical primitives for this coordination tend to be distributed shared locks and leadership elections. In etcd 3.2, both distributed shared locks and elections are exported as RPC services, greatly simplifying distributed coordination while also improving performance in high latency environments.