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Your Hand-Rolled Two-Phase Commit Between Two Databases Isn't Atomic

Dev.to · scubaDEV 2d ago

Your Hand-Rolled Two-Phase Commit Between Two Databases Isn't Atomic

I had a write that spanned two physically separate databases. A rename that had to propagate across...

Everything That Breaks When You Generate PDFs with Headless Chrome in a Container

Dev.to · scubaDEV 2d ago

Everything That Breaks When You Generate PDFs with Headless Chrome in a Container

Server-side PDF generation with headless Chrome is the kind of feature that demos perfectly and then...

Dynamic Column Updates in EF Core Without Hand-Rolling SQL Injection

Dev.to · scubaDEV 2d ago

Dynamic Column Updates in EF Core Without Hand-Rolling SQL Injection

Sometimes you genuinely need the set of columns to update to be data, not code. An operator maps...

SELECT MAX()+1 Is a Race Condition Waiting to Happen

Dev.to · scubaDEV 2d ago

SELECT MAX()+1 Is a Race Condition Waiting to Happen

This is a story in three acts about one of the most innocent-looking patterns in backend code:...

Postgres or ClickHouse? Row vs Column Storage, and When Each Wins

Dev.to · scubaDEV 2d ago

Postgres or ClickHouse? Row vs Column Storage, and When Each Wins

PostgreSQL and ClickHouse both speak SQL, both call themselves databases, and both will happily store...