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Learn Compare And Swap as a connected topic across chapters, concepts, simulations, and interview reasoning.

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Concurrency
Databases
Distributed Systems
Optimistic Locking

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Article 1Compare-and-Swap and Optimistic Locking: How Every Database Implements ItTLDR: Compare-and-Swap (CAS) is the CPU-level atomic instruction that makes lock-free concurrency possible. Optimistic locking builds on it at the database layer: read freely, compute locally, write o34 min