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Engineering Notes

Short technical notes on distributed systems, platform engineering, reliability, and AI infrastructure, grounded in implemented systems.

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Why FOR UPDATE Does Not Protect a Missing Idempotency Key

A concise engineering explanation of PostgreSQL row locking, uniqueness constraints, transaction rollback, and idempotent workflow admission under concurrent requests.

Related project: gRPC Microservices Reference

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