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Ensuring data(base) consistency during concurrent requests

Ensuring data(base) consistency during concurrent requests

1 Nov 2021 • 8 min read

Bugs caused by race conditions can be a huge source of frustration. They are difficult to identify and often difficult to remedy. As part of my day to day job at Mollie [https://mollie.com/], guarding against data inconsistencies is always top of mind. At the very least, unexpected inconsistencies require attention from support or a developer. In worse situations,...


Partitioning for concurrency in synchronous business processes.

Partitioning for concurrency in synchronous business processes.

1 Oct 2017 • 8 min read

The PHP landscape is getting more and more diverse. The typical PHP + MySQL combination is no longer the only way of doing things. Applications in PHP are not just fancy database wrappers anymore. The solutions we build today do far more than just model the solution-space around storing records in databases. We use queueing systems, background processing, alternative storage solutions,...


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