<ul data-eligibleForWebStory="false"><li>Race conditions in microservice architecture can lead to unexpected behaviors due to events or requests not being processed in the expected order.</li><li>Examples include events received out of order and concurrent database updates, which can result in inconsistencies in the system.</li><li>Common approaches to dealing with race conditions include designing for idempotency, implementing locking mechanisms, retrying on out-of-order execution, using FIFO queues, event sourcing, outbox pattern, and atomic counters.</li><li>The author shares personal experiences and solutions to handling race conditions in microservices, highlighting the importance of addressing such issues in distributed systems.</li></ul>

Race Conditions in Microservice Architecture – My Personal Guide

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