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		codegladiator on July 29, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ways to shoot yourself in the foot with Redis The lock is explicitly release by the redis server itself after the ttl. It's not that the Client will assume that the lock is released.

xiwenc on July 30, 2023 [–]

In the past i used SQS where the client can extend the TTL of a given message (or lock in this case?) while it is still alive. Isn’t that possible with Redis?

TheCycoONE on July 30, 2023 | [–]

It is, with quite a bit of flexibility https://redis.io/commands/expire/

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