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Do we fear the serializable isolation level more than we fear subtle bugs (2024)

Hacker News Top · 2026-06-03 Cached

This article argues that using weaker database isolation levels as default is a form of premature optimization, and recommends serializable isolation level unless the DBMS already defaults to it. It cites real examples of concurrency bugs leading to financial losses.

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