Have definitely thought through this process and wound up using Redlock for the time being.<p>I didn&#x27;t expect it to be a perfect system but I don&#x27;t want to deal with setting up a queuing system right now when there simply isn&#x27;t enough activity taking place.<p>Will it fail at some point? Possibly, but it&#x27;s a great intermediary solution as you state. I for one would be curious to see other solutions to this problem. Are there any resources you&#x27;d recommend?