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Rollback Mountain

A raw, powerful story of two young transactions, one serializable and the other read-committed, who meet in the summer of 2005 updating tables in the harsh, high-volume environment of a contemporary online trading system and form an unorthodox yet session-long bond -- by turns ecstatic, bitter, and conflicted.

Et qu'on ne me dise plus que les développeurs PostgreSQL n'ont pas d'humour :)