lock contention
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Oct 6, 2025
Lütke: Database lock contention is the fundamental bottleneck in scaling flash sales
“You really deal with log contention, and log contention is difficult. You, it's very, very hard to scale if everyone at the same time wants to decrement an integer in the database just actually then also the transaction involves Having to go to interchange and…”