The post describes a practical example of dealing with race conditions in an application managing on-call shifts for doctors. It explains how naive API implementations can lead to race conditions and demonstrates two PostgreSQL-based solutions—serializable transaction isolation and advisory locks—to handle these issues. The article includes SQL snippets and code examples for implementing these solutions and discusses the importance of addressing race conditions in various real-life scenarios.

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