One of the key properties for correct pessimistic locking handling and testing is LockTimeout.
Unfortunately its JPA support by different RDBMS providers is far from complete.
In this article I will show you how you may overcome this limitation on Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Apache Derby and H2.
Moreover, I will give you some suggestions about when pessimistic locking might be the correct solution and when not.
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Every now and then your PO (Product Owner), business analyst or project leader will ask you to import an Excel file.
You will decline, he will insist and, in the end, you will give in.
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Your data in Elasticsearch is valuable. Therefore the need for backups is provided by the snapshot and restore mechanism in Elasticsearch.
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While optimistic locking handling in JPA is relatively well-known, it is usually poorly tested or not tested at all.
In this blog post I will show you firstly what does optimistic locking handling mean and how you could implement it within a Spring Boot Application and JPA.
After that you could see a way to write integration tests, which I hope could surprise you with their simplicity and efficiency!
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Containers are a solution to the problem of how to get the software to run when moved from one computing environment to another. Especially with Docker, as container solution, started a new DevOps trend. We, as software engineers, leverage this technology to ship our software to any environment.
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