race condition
A race condition is a feast where two processes engage in a hidden brawl over the same resource. The destructive power born of unpredictable timing mercilessly shatters the designer’s ego. Unless every lock serves as an unbreakable chain, its rampage continues and debugging turns into prayer. Ultimately it hurls a bomb called an exception, driving developers to the brink of despair. This is a miniature of the technical chaos born from the beautiful lie called concurrency.