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Instinct founder Noah Shinn stated that over 50% of transactions on the platform are travel-related, highlighting the AI agent's primary use case. The company recently raised $1 billion in Series C funding at a $10 billion valuation, positioning it against competitors like Meta's Muse and Khosla-backed Wajo in the personal agent market.
The article explains how to handle race conditions in PostgreSQL when modeling state transitions with an append-only table, suggesting the use of SELECT FOR UPDATE to serialize transactions and avoid inconsistencies.
Vlad Mihalcea explains how the JTA transaction type works, including the 2PC protocol and how to use JTA with Spring for global transactions across multiple data sources such as PostgreSQL and Ehcache.
The author explores the current state of AI agent-to-agent transactions, questioning how trust, escrow, and disputes are handled in practice, and invites real-world experiences from builders.
This article explains how using Postgres transactions for workflow state co-located with application data eliminates idempotency and atomicity problems in distributed workflows, providing exactly-once execution.
sqlite-utils 4.0rc1 is a release candidate that adds built-in database migrations (ported from sqlite-migrate) and nested transactions via db.atomic(), along with minor backwards-incompatible changes.
The article analyzes inherent concurrency bugs in SQL, such as atomicity failures, TOCTOU issues, and deadlocks, using a money transfer example to demonstrate correct locking and transaction practices.