Four Levels of Concurrency Control: Optimistic Locks to Message Queues for Million‑QPS
High‑concurrency systems must go beyond simple locking; the article breaks down four progressive strategies—optimistic locking, database pessimistic locking, Redis distributed locks, and finally message‑queue serialization—explaining their trade‑offs, implementation details, pitfalls, and how to combine them into a layered architecture that sustains million‑QPS workloads with consistency, throughput, and recoverability.
