The Problem We Were Actually Solving I still remember the day our server count hit 50 nodes - it was the point at which our distributed lock management started to show signs of trouble. The system would intermittently fail to acquire locks, resulting in errors that would only resolve once we restarted the entire cluster. This was not just a minor annoyance, but a major problem that threatened to bring down our entire platform. As I dug deeper into the issue, I realized that our reliance on Veltr