alt Hacker NewsA lot of work can be wrapped inside a database transaction, but never everything. You're always going to want to interact with external APIs eventually.
A lot of work can be wrapped inside a database transaction, but never everything. You're always going to want to interact with external APIs eventually.
Yes of course. External calls still need to be idempotent. But the point is some frameworks allow you to make some, or even most, of your work safe for durable execution by default.