The database is not the tool to prevent race conditions. It's an easier solution, and works as a stopgap, absolutely, but vulnerability to race conditions on the data layer are an architectural flaw that should be remedied elsewhere.
I often notice this with asynchronous microservices - where the solution is an execution engine or message broker, not relying on the database to resolve race conditions.
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The database is not the tool to prevent race conditions. It's an easier solution, and works as a stopgap, absolutely, but vulnerability to race conditions on the data layer are an architectural flaw that should be remedied elsewhere.
I often notice this with asynchronous microservices - where the solution is an execution engine or message broker, not relying on the database to resolve race conditions.