ACID Is a Contract, Not a Religion: How Real Systems Keep Money Safe
Most engineers learn ACID early. Most engineers also learn later that ACID is not the whole story. That is not a contradiction—it is a scope problem. This article is a practical architecture guide to double-entry ledgers, concurrency control, isolation levels, and the quiet discipline that separates payment systems that work from payment systems that work until they don't.
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