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Our price job put back the stock our stock job had just sold out

On the Friday of a November promotion we sold three hundred and forty cordless drills on a marketplace that we did not have. The listing had said fourteen in stock for most of the afternoon.

  • Company sold 340 cordless drills despite only 14 in stock
  • Price job and stock job conflicted due to lack of synchronization
  • Issue resolved by using ETags and If-Match header for updates

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