CDCoding Dropletsincodingdroplets.com·Jul 10 · 12 min readHow to Build a Job Queue in .NET with PostgreSQL SKIP LOCKED: A Real-World WalkthroughEvery .NET team eventually needs to run work outside the request cycle: send the welcome email, generate the invoice PDF, push the webhook, re-index the search document. The default instinct is to rea00
RCRahul Chaduvulainsoftwareconcepts.hashnode.dev·Jul 10 · 6 min readBuilding a Concurrency-Safe Movie Reservation SystemIntroduction One of the most interesting challenges in backend engineering isn't building CRUD APIs—it's designing systems that continue to behave correctly when hundreds of users interact with them s10
DPDarsh Patelindarsh-patel.hashnode.dev·Jul 4 · 5 min read7 Go Concurrency Patterns Every Developer Should Know – Simplified GuideGo is popular for its powerful concurrency features, making it a fantastic choice for building scalable backend systems. In this post, we’ll break down 7 key concurrency patterns in simple language, w00
SKShubham Kumar Singhinblog.realdev.club·Jul 3 · 5 min readHow I Solved the Ordered Parallel Batcher Problem in JavaScriptEvery coding problem teaches you something new. Recently, I worked on an interesting asynchronous JavaScript interview question called Ordered Parallel Batcher. At first, I thought the solution would 00
EWEzra Wuinqwertyboy0325.hashnode.dev·Jul 3 · 9 min readFOR UPDATE SKIP LOCKED Was Not Enough: A Stale Failure Write Race in an Inbox ProcessorWhy a post-rollback failure transition needs its own serialization boundary. I found this while auditing a reliability claim in a small inbox processor. The processor used PostgreSQL, multiple worker 00
SHSohag Hasaninnotes.sohag.pro·Jun 29 · 9 min readAtomic Transaction Posting in Go: Getting Balance Invariants Right Under ConcurrencyImagine an account with 100 taka in it, and two withdrawals of 100 taka arriving at the exact same instant. Both read the balance, both see 100, both say "yep, enough money," and both go through. The 00
DPDevesh Parmarinbackend-bytes.hashnode.dev·Jun 27 · 6 min readDistributed Locks: The Bug That Only Shows Up Under LoadImagine you're the engineer at a ticketing platform during a major concert drop. Two users click "Book Seat 14B" at the exact same millisecond. Both requests hit different servers. Both servers read t00
YJYasir Jafriinyasir323.hashnode.dev·Jun 27 · 13 min readTap, Tap, Charged Twice: The Idempotency-Key PatternA friend once messaged me, mildly furious, with a screenshot from his bank: the same $500 payment, twice, two seconds apart. He'd tapped "Pay," the app spun for a moment, nothing happened, so he tappe10
YJYasir Jafriinyasir323.hashnode.dev·Jun 26 · 17 min readThe Transactional Outbox Pattern in Python: Solving the Dual-Write ProblemThere's a particular kind of bug I've learned to be afraid of. It doesn't throw an exception. It doesn't show up in your tests. It passes code review, ships on a Friday, and works perfectly for three 10
SMS M Piyas Mahamude Alifintechopinion.hashnode.dev·Jun 24 · 19 min readNode.js Thread Pool Under the Hood The Secret Engine Behind libuv's Architecture, Scheduling, Optimization, and High ConcurrencyIntroduction: The Lie You Were Told Every Node.js tutorial opens with the same sentence: "Node.js is single-threaded." It is a sentence that is both true and wildly misleading at the same time. Yes,00