Engineering·August 5, 2026·1 min read
⚙️ Keeping the lights on
Shipping fast and friendly — here's what's new: concurrent tag allocation race in pledge fulfillment..
Claim ownership only when UPDATE…RETURNING succeeds, retry briefly under contention, surface fulfill errors in admin, and count unpaid allocations correctly.
Why it matters
Boring-but-important plumbing. Reliability work like this is what keeps the lights on so your tag just works, every single scan.