Domain-Driven Design in PHP

Optimistic Concurrency Control

There's another alternative: not using locks at all. Consider adding a version attribute to our Aggregates. When we persist them, the persistence engine sets 1 as the version of the persisted Aggregate. Later, we retrieve the same Aggregate and perform some changes to it. We persist the Aggregate. The persistence engine checks that the version we have is the same as the one that's currently persisted, version 1. The persistence engine persists the Aggregate with the new state and updates its version to 2. If multiple requests retrieve the same Aggregate, make some changes to it, and then try to persist it, the first request will work, and the second will experiment and error. The last request just changed an ...