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Here’s the gist of that Medium post (Arvind Kumar, Oct 30, 2025) and the concrete concurrency approaches it walks through. (Medium)

What it’s trying to solve

When a ton of people hit “Book” at the same time, the core failure mode is the classic read → decide → write race: multiple requests can read “seat is available” before any of them writes “seat is booked,” causing double-booking. (Medium)

The 3 main concurrency strategies (plus “naive” as the baseline)

A PoC repo based on the article lays these out very clearly (schema + sample queries + load-test behavior): (GitHub)

  1. Naive (what not to do)
    Read is_booked, then later UPDATE it—easy to break under concurrency. (GitHub)

  2. Pessimistic locking (DB row lock) Use a transaction + SELECT ... FOR UPDATE so only one transaction can “own” that seat row while deciding. (GitHub)

  • Upside: strongest safety, simplest mental model
  • Downside: contention under hot seats, plus deadlock/latency risks (GitHub)
  1. Optimistic locking (version / compare-and-swap) Add a version column; update only if the version you read is still current (UPDATE ... WHERE id=? AND version=?). If 0 rows updated → conflict → retry/return failure. (GitHub)
  • Upside: high throughput when conflicts are rare
  • Downside: you need solid retry/backoff behavior when conflicts spike (GitHub)
  1. Distributed locking (Redis) Acquire a short TTL lock (e.g., SET key value NX PX ...) before you touch the DB, so multiple app instances coordinate. (GitHub)
  • Upside: works across many stateless service replicas; can be fast
  • Downside: adds network dependency + correctness details (TTL, unlock token, etc.). The article also calls out Redlock as an “advanced” version. (Medium)

A sane end-to-end booking flow (what teams actually do)

The article’s ToC includes a “complete booking flow” + edge cases. (Medium) In practice, you usually combine one of the above with:

  • Hold/reserve with an expiration (seat is “held” for N minutes), then confirm on payment success, else release.
  • For multi-service systems, model it as a Saga (reserve → pay → confirm, with compensations like “release hold”). (temporal.io)

TL;DR decision guide

  • Few seats, lots of contention (flash sale): pessimistic DB locks or a distributed lock in front (carefully) (GitHub)
  • Many seats, low conflict rate: optimistic locking scales nicely (GitHub)
  • Many app instances + you need a cross-node mutex: Redis locks / Redlock pattern (Redis)

If you tell me what stack you’re using (Postgres/MySQL, Redis yes/no, monolith vs microservices), I can translate this into a concrete “do this, not that” implementation checklist.

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