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Articles tagged with #databases
When a system goes down, users don’t care whether it was a server crash, a bug, or a configuration mistake. All they see is one thing: “The app is not working.” That moment when users can’t use the system is what truly matters. And preventing that mo...
Sharding vs Partitioning: What’s the Real Difference? As applications grow, databases often become the first bottleneck. Queries slow down, writes queue up, and suddenly the system that worked fine yesterday starts struggling today. Two common techni...
Databases are used in systems where correctness really matters, like payment, bookings, inventory, user data, and more. To make sure data stays reliable even under failures and heavy concurrency, databases follow a set of guarantees known as ACID: A...
Database deadlocks are among the most challenging concurrency issues encountered in real-world production systems. While modern databases are designed to handle parallel workloads efficiently, deadlocks remain an unavoidable side effect of correct lo...
