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BACKEND ENGINEERING•Databases Concurrency And Caching•Database Performance•2.3 Transactions

2.3.1 Transactions

Subtopics: Transactions.

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Book reference: Kleppmann, Designing Data-Intensive Applications, Ch. 7. Original notes kept below; rewrite them in your own words.

2.3.1 Transactions

ACID units of work.

Why it matters

Production systems depend on this idea. Learn the vocabulary and the failure modes before you wire tools.

How it is used

Start with the simplest correct approach. Measure. Add complexity only when load or correctness demands it.

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