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Aug 17, 2026 · Backend Development

From DB Row Locks to Redis + Lua: Evolving Flash‑Sale Inventory Deduction

The article walks through the evolution of a flash‑sale inventory‑deduction system, starting with simple database row‑locking SQL, exposing its scalability limits, and progressively adding transaction trimming, Redis pre‑deduction, Lua atomic scripts, async pipelines, idempotency, reconciliation and robust engineering practices to handle extreme concurrency.