Does Your Test Suite Account For Weak Transaction Isolation?

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Transaction isolation is the kind of thing that you learn about and it fills you with fear. Specifically, there are weak transaction isolation levels which allow some fairly unexpected behavior. Tools like Jepsen are used to test the general isolation guarantees of databases, but it’s pretty uncommon to check the application layer for issues related to isolation anomalies. These anomalies can…

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