# When to Use Optimistic vs Pessimistic Locking | Alina Kovtun✨…

Canonical: https://brew.new/templates/medium/when-to-use-optimistic-vs-pessimistic-locking-alina-kovtun

Brand: medium.com
Category: newsletter

![Preview of When to Use Optimistic vs Pessimistic Locking | Alina Kovtun✨…](https://cdn.brew.new/email-preview-2c376f2556ec0963-tracking_r57nwpv14xp5x76f25jyw27dtd8gr3xa-1792682513478.png)

## Email content

Alex Reed

Stories for Alex Reed

@alex_reed·Become a member

Medium daily digest

Today's highlights

Alina Kovtun✨

Alina Kovtun✨inWomen in Technology

When to Use Optimistic vs Pessimistic Locking

When to Use Optimistic vs Pessimistic Locking

Can you hold the lock, how often do writers collide…

Member-only content

18 min read

Claps385

Responses6

Mona Lazar

Mona Lazar

I Did the Math. You Can’t Afford to Leave America. Sorry.

I Did the Math. You Can’t Afford to Leave America. Sorry.

The real reason 52M Americans won’t leave the US

Member-only content

6 min read

Claps11.6K

Responses357

PK — The Angular Guy

PK — The Angular Guy

Angular Is Winning — And Most Developers Haven’t Noticed Yet

Angular Is Winning — And Most Developers Haven’t Noticed Yet

Everyone told me to learn React. I spent 14 years on…

9 min read

Claps337

Responses26

Josh Dubowsky

Josh Dubowsky

The Claude Routine That Replaced My Morning Routine

The Claude Routine That Replaced My Morning Routine

The 96-minute audit, the six rituals I cancelled, and…

8 min read

Claps1.5K

Responses56

Stevie Nix

Stevie NixinRock On

Six Songs You Shouldn’t Sing Anymore

Six Songs You Shouldn’t Sing Anymore

For reasons that should become obvious

5 min read

Claps6.3K

Responses435

The Thread Whisperer

The Thread Whisperer

PostgreSQL Will Kill MongoDB by 2028. The Migration Has Already Started

PostgreSQL Will Kill MongoDB by 2028. The Migration Has Already Started

Not with a bang. With a JSONB column nobody noticed.

Member-only content

3 min read

Claps90

Responses11

Vruddhi Shah

Vruddhi ShahinArtificial Intelligence in Plain English

10 AI Tools Everyone Will Be Using in Six Months, But Almost Nobody’s Found Yet

10 AI Tools Everyone Will Be Using in Six Months, But Almost Nobody’s Found Yet

You’re going to see these in someone’s toolkit next…

Member-only content

5 min read

Claps5.2K

Responses143

Christian Graham

Christian Graham

Laya: a free, local alternative to Jev — and it can even play Doom(ish)

Laya: a free, local alternative to Jev — and it can even play Doom(ish)

Jev just came out and it’s understandably creating a…

3 min read

Claps770

Responses17

Shrashti Singhal

Shrashti SinghalinTowards AI

The Economics of Agents: Token Accounting, Caching, and Routing

The Economics of Agents: Token Accounting, Caching, and Routing

Your agent doesn’t have a performance problem. It has…

Member-only content

17 min read

Claps395

Responses9

Rahul K.

Rahul K.inActivated Thinker

Stop Wasting Cash on These 10 Overpriced Modern Lifestyle Habits Today

Stop Wasting Cash on These 10 Overpriced Modern Lifestyle Habits Today

Discover which modern expenses quietly waste money…

Member-only content

15 min read

Claps3.4K

Responses185

Elizabeth Spiers

Elizabeth Spiers

I Was Raped at a Frat Party, and My Experience is Horrifyingly Common

I Was Raped at a Frat Party, and My Experience is Horrifyingly Common

The problems that make colleges a hostile environment…

Member-only content

13 min read

Claps8.5K

Responses230

Gopi C K

Gopi C KinAll About Computers

Stop Following Tutorials: Build These 5 Backend Projects Instead

Stop Following Tutorials: Build These 5 Backend Projects Instead

Build These 5 Backend Projects to Master APIs…

Member-only content

18 min read

Claps151

Responses1

Emily

Emily

I will never walk into a backend interview without solving these 20 questions.

I will never walk into a backend interview without solving these 20 questions.

A practical baseline checklist of the specific…

7 min read

Claps1.1K

Responses30

Hadeer Hadi

Hadeer Hadiinonegodpath.com

The Man Who Took the Bible Apart Spent Twenty Years on Muhammad. Here Is What He Concluded.

The Man Who Took the Bible Apart Spent Twenty Years on Muhammad. Here Is What…

The 19th century’s most feared critic of scripture…

7 min read

Claps4.1K

Responses115

Lukasz Szubelak

Lukasz SzubelakinLS Analytics

Causal Inference with Python: A Guide to Regression Discontinuity Design

Causal Inference with Python: A Guide to Regression Discontinuity Design

When Amazon Prime launched in 2005, it changed…

Member-only content

20 min read

Claps245

Responses3

Become a Medium member

See more of what you like and less of what you don’t.

Control your recommendations

Read from anywhere.

Get Medium on the App Store

Get Medium on Google Play

Sent by Medium·3500 South DuPont Highway, Suite IQ-101, Dover, DE 19901

Unsubscribe from this type of email·Switch to the Weekly Digest·Careers·Help Center·Privacy Policy·Terms of service

[Open and remix this design](https://brew.new/templates/medium/when-to-use-optimistic-vs-pessimistic-locking-alina-kovtun)

[Browse email designs](https://brew.new/browse/templates)
