Tag: databases

All the articles with the tag "databases".

• 80/20 Of The Week: Locking (Optimistic, Pessimistic, ...)

  20 Apr, 2026

  Why concurrent updates get tricky and how optimistic and pessimistic locking help.

• 80/20 Of The Week: Partitioning and Sharding

  9 Mar, 2026

  The core concepts of horizontal and vertical data splitting, partitioning vs sharding, and sharding strategies.