[bennybolide]

> If any of my readers are aware of any real lawsuits that came from application developers who believed they were getting a SERIALIZABLE isolation level, but experienced write skew anomalies in practice

Doubt this ever really happened. Can hardly imagine debating serializability in a court of law Oracle v. Google was bad enough.

[jchrisa]

A quick search shows data integrity lawsuits do happen: https://www.healthcareinfosecurity.com/1-billion-lawsuit-foc...

But I'd like to hear from engineers who have seen write skew bugs and other transaction anomalies cause business issues.

[jhugg]

This is some nice work on the issue from Peter Bailis: http://www.bailis.org/blog/understanding-weak-isolation-is-a...