Add locking in the app to avoid deadlock #123
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Fixes #122
As described in the linked issue, a deadlock is possible if we get parallel update requests for different scopes under the same instance.
A full fix would require adding a new table to the database against which we obtain the lock for the instance (rather then the existing instance/scope level lock).
I've chosen a more pragmatic solution to get this fixed quickly; rather than make db changes, this uses an in-memory mutex that marshals access to the instance.
This isn't a scalable solution as the locks are held in memory of the app (so no horizontal scaling possible); but it will work within our current usage.
I've also simplified the code that was calculating the current context usage. The previous code was retrieving all of the contents and then calculating its size. This can be done in a single sql query - no need to transfer all the data over the network each time. I've tested this against postgres and sqlite.