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01The Last Mango Problem: Race Conditions in a Real Marketplace
What happens when fifty people try to buy the last item, use a single-use coupon or book a nearly full pickup window at the same instant, the MySQL snapshot detail that almost overbooked a stall, and the quieter races that hide in stock forms, restocks and payments.
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