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Your Hand-Rolled Two-Phase Commit Between Two Databases Isn't Atomic

Dev.to · scubaDEV 🔧 Backend Engineering ⚡ AI Lesson 2mo ago

Your Hand-Rolled Two-Phase Commit Between Two Databases Isn't Atomic

I had a write that spanned two physically separate databases. A rename that had to propagate across...

SELECT MAX()+1 Is a Race Condition Waiting to Happen

Dev.to · scubaDEV 🔧 Backend Engineering ⚡ AI Lesson 2mo ago

SELECT MAX()+1 Is a Race Condition Waiting to Happen

This is a story in three acts about one of the most innocent-looking patterns in backend code:...