Canonical Way to Ensure Only One Instance of a Service Is Running / Starting / Stopping in Clojure?
I'm writing a stateful server in Clojure backed by Neo4j that can serve socket requests, like HTTP. Which means, of course, that I need to be able to start and stop socket servers from within this server. Design-wise, I would want to be able to declare a "service" within this server and start and stop it. What I'm trying to wrap my mind around in Clojure is how to ensure that starting and stopping these services is thread-safe. This server I'm writing will have NREPL embedded inside it and process incoming requests in a parallel way. Some of these requests will be administrative: start service