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The Outbox Pattern: How to Publish Events Without Losing Them

josedacruz, August 12, 2026August 12, 2026

TL;DR: When a service needs to save something to its database and tell other services about it at the same time, doing those two things separately can silently lose data. The outbox pattern fixes this by writing the “I need to send this event” note into the same database transaction…

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