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Part of our goals is to have as much redundancy as possible and to avoid having any single process that could impact the operation of the others.

Having a single process that each of these worker bees have to check in with creates the risk of a single point of failure.

I'm going to do some testing with creating lock files that have exclusive locks on them, so a competing process can't create a lock file of the same name, preventing them from processing the same file elsewhere.

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