alt Hacker News> Sure enough it sounded like this article
FWIW The article literally talks about the challenges with getting this to actually work and recommends removing it and just using the DB for everything.
> Sure enough it sounded like this article
FWIW The article literally talks about the challenges with getting this to actually work and recommends removing it and just using the DB for everything.
But that's what the outbox pattern is. You take the problem of transacting between more than one system, and by "just using the db", you declare the problem solved, leaving the communication with other systems as an exercise for the reader.
From the end of the article: