Concurrency control

Retries Can Make Outages Worse: Building Resilient ASP.NET Core APIs with Polly

Sudhir Mangla
Software architecture,Concurrency control
20 Oct, 2026

1 Introduction: The Hidden Dangers of Blind Retries in Distributed Systems A checkout API calls inventory. Inventory slows down, so checkout retries. The retry joins the same queue as the origin

Optimistic vs Pessimistic Concurrency in EF Core: Choosing the Right Strategy

Sudhir Mangla
Database,Concurrency control
26 Feb, 2026

1 The Concurrency Landscape for .NET Architects Every multi-user application faces the same fundamental question: what happens when two users modify the same data at the same time? If you don't