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Transactional Outbox Pattern

Updated May 4, 2026

Short answer

Ensuring atomicity between database updates and event publishing.

Deep explanation

Events are first saved to a local 'Outbox' table within the same DB transaction. A separate relay process polls this table and publishes to a message broker.

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