Tag: #transactions
Writing on GPUs, LLMs, MLOps, Kubernetes — and mindset · 3 posts
Cassandra 6.0-alpha1 and Accord Transactions — Where Does the 5-Year "General-Purpose Transaction" Promise Stand Now
Accord, the general-purpose transaction protocol for Cassandra proposed as CEP-15 in 2021, finally shipped in a runnable release, 6.0-alpha1, in March-April 2026. The protocol promises to handle multi-partition strict-se
2026-07-17 · 13 min read #database#cassandra#distributed-systems#transactionsDatabase Transactions and Isolation Levels, Explained
What ACID actually guarantees, the four isolation levels (read uncommitted → serializable), the anomalies each one permits (dirty, non-repeatable, and phantom reads, plus write skew), MVCC, locking versus optimistic conc
2026-06-30 · 13 min read #databases#transactions#acidDistributed Transactions: 2PC vs the Saga Pattern
Why the ACID that was easy inside one database falls apart across services, how two-phase commit works and where it breaks (coordinator, blocking, failure modes), the Saga pattern (choreography vs orchestration, compensa
2026-06-29 · 12 min read #distributed-systems#transactions#saga