{"categories":[{"label":"Distributed Computing","url":"https://skillfed.io/packages/category/system-distributed-computing/2"}],"enrichment":{"capability":"Tooz provides a coordination API for distributed systems, centralizing common primitives like group membership, lock services, and leader election.","skillfed_tags":["distributed-systems","coordination","openstack"],"use_cases":["Implement distributed locks across multiple application instances to prevent concurrent access to shared resources","Manage group membership to track which nodes are active in a distributed cluster","Elect a leader node to coordinate work or manage state in a distributed system","Build distributed task queues or job schedulers that need coordination across workers"],"what_it_does":"Tooz is a coordination library that abstracts away the complexity of building distributed applications by providing a unified API for common distributed primitives. Instead of writing custom code to handle group membership, distributed locks, and leader election, developers use Tooz's consistent interface to these operations, which can be backed by different coordination services. The library is production-stable and actively maintained, supporting Python 3.11 through 3.14.\n\nThe package is built on top of established dependencies including stevedore, msgpack, fasteners, tenacity, futurist, oslo.utils, and oslo.serialization. It's designed for teams building distributed systems who need reliable coordination without reinventing these patterns for each new service.","worth_installing":"Yes. Tooz is production-stable, actively maintained, has low install friction, carries a permissive Apache-2.0 license, and solves a real problem for distributed systems. No known vulnerabilities. Install it if you're building distributed applications that need coordination primitives."},"id":"tooz","links":{"html":"https://skillfed.io/packages/tooz","md":"https://skillfed.io/packages/tooz.md","pypi":"https://pypi.org/project/tooz/"},"maintenance":{"status":"active"},"meta":{"latest_release":"2026-07-30","license_spdx":null,"license_treatment":"permissive","name":"tooz","python_support":"supports_current","summary":"Coordination library for distributed systems."},"popularity":{"monthly_downloads":158649,"position":10715,"tier":"top_15000"},"security":{"n_vulnerabilities":0},"version":"9.0.1"}