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Concurrency and Race Conditions

Defects that appear only when operations overlap in time, and the primitives used to prevent them, such as transactions, atomic writes and queues.

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A generated read-then-write lets both requests spend the same balance

A dev.to walkthrough of AI-written Firebase code argues the dangerous defects sit in the architecture, and its examples are a balance update two concurrent requests can both pass and a rule that admits any signed-in user.

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