Alice

Alice

Notes and thinking.

Transaction

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A transaction is a way for an application to group several reads and writes together into a logical unit. All the reads and writes in a transaction are executed as one operation. A transaction is simular to a git commit get pushed on master branch, either it succeeds, or it fails.

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