Using only half the outbox pattern
(medium.com)
In distributed systems, reliable communication between services cannot be taken for granted. You might update a database record successfully, but if publishing an event to Kafka or RabbitMQ fails immediately after, inconsistencies can appear — issues that may not be visible right away but can cause serious problems later.
In distributed systems, reliable communication between services cannot be taken for granted. You might update a database record successfully, but if publishing an event to Kafka or RabbitMQ fails immediately after, inconsistencies can appear — issues that may not be visible right away but can cause serious problems later.