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2026-01-30
~11 min
FoundationDB's Transaction Model for Layer Engineers
How optimistic concurrency control works in FoundationDB, and how to design data structures that stop fighting it
2024-03-12
~4 min
True idempotent transactions with FoundationDB 7.3
Learn how to avoid FDB's biggest caveats by using a new feature called automatic idempotency in FoundationDB
2019-02-03
~4 min
What are ACID transactions?
A walkthrough of the ACID properties of database transactions, from the 1983 Haerder and Reuter paper that coined them to isolation levels and PostgreSQL's MVCC implementation.
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© 2026 Pierre Zemb · last rev. 2026-08-14
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