Preventing Product Overselling in High‑Concurrency E‑Commerce Systems
To prevent overselling during flash sales, the article explains how non‑atomic database updates cause negative stock and presents solutions such as optimistic DB locking, Redis Lua atomic deductions, Redisson distributed locks, transactional message queues, and pre‑deduction with rate limiting, recommending a combined approach that achieved 120 000 QPS with zero oversell.