pessimistic

When to use Pessimistic Locking

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There are cases where we need to use a pessimistic locking strategy. While optimistic updates are an absolute minimum, we deploy a pessimistic locking strategy into a carefully thought out design. We use pessimistic locking strategies in two primary cases: As a semaphore to ensure only a single process executes a certain block of code … Read more

Database Concurrency

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As previously discussed, the database is a crucial component of our new scheduler and for most business systems. With an appropriately designed data model, well written SQL and well-thought out transaction lifecycles and their makeup, most database implementations will provide little cause for complaint, even with many concurrent requests. But you need to think carefully … Read more