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The Outbox Pattern: Reliable Messaging Without Distributed TransactionsUpdate your database and publish an event atomically — without two-phase commit — by writing events to an outbox table first.
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Architecture
Event-Driven Architecture Isn't Free: The Cost of Eventual ConsistencyDecoupling with events buys scalability and resilience, but you pay in eventual consistency, ordering bugs, and harder debugging.
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Architecture
The Saga Pattern and the Distributed-Transaction TrapYou can't BEGIN..COMMIT across services. Sagas trade atomic transactions for choreographed steps and compensating actions.
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Architecture
Idempotency Keys: The API Pattern That Prevents Double ChargesA client retries a payment after a timeout and the customer gets billed twice. Idempotency keys make retries safe by design.
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ArchitectureMicroservices promise scale and autonomy, but the real bill arrives as operational tax, network failure modes, and cognitive load.
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