#Messaging

2 articles tagged with "messaging"

📬 The Outbox Pattern: How to Stop Lying to Your Message Broker

You write to the database, then publish an event. What happens when the process dies between those two lines? The outbox pattern is the boring, reliable answer to a problem every event-driven system eventually hits.

Jul 22, 2026

6 min read

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🎭 Sagas: Distributed Transactions Without the 2PC Nightmare

Distributed transactions are where microservices go to cry. The saga pattern gives you eventual consistency without locking every service in a two-phase commit death grip — here's how it actually works.

Jun 10, 2026

6 min read