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resonious 35 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: We replaced Redis with MySQL for inventory reserva...

Yes. You decrement for a few minutes then release if there's no purchase in time. Airlines figured out how to do this a very long time ago.

dessimus 35 days ago [–]

Except airlines, literally oversell flights all the time, and the context of my response was to preventing oversale.

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