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Concurrency Control: Your Aggregate Is Single-Threaded. Your Cluster Isn’t.atomicobject.com

This article distinguishes between serialization (preventing concurrent access) and arbitration (permitting access and rejecting losers) in distributed concurrency control. It argues that arbitration should be responsible for correctness, as serialization guarantees are conditional and can fail silently in multi-process environments, leading to data corruption.