May 31 · 34 min read · How a shared filesystem became the cheapest, fastest outbox ever built — and why FSx for OpenZFS is the version of that idea that finally scales I was staring at an AWS bill last quarter where a singl
Join discussionApr 5 · 23 min read · TLDR: Any service that writes to a database and publishes a message in the same logical operation has a dual write problem. try/catch retries don't fix it — they turn failures into duplicates. The Tra
Join discussionFeb 12 · 11 min read · Why Traditional Event Publishing Fails at Scale The naive approach to event publishing looks deceptively simple: execute a database transaction, then publish an event to your message broker. This dual write creates a fundamental race condition with f...
Join discussionFeb 12 · 10 min read · Metadata SEO Title: Transactional Outbox Pattern for Event-Driven Systems Meta Description: Learn how the Transactional Outbox Pattern solves dual-write problems in event-driven microservices with production-ready TypeScript examples. Primary Keyword...
Join discussionJan 10 · 3 min read · In the previous article, we explored the Outbox Pattern to guarantee that events are published reliably from a producer service. But publishing events safely is only half of the problem. 👉 What happens on the consumer side ? What if the same Kafka ...
Join discussionJan 7 · 5 min read · In a modern microservices architecture, services must communicate asynchronously, decoupled, and reliably. Apache Kafka has become a standard for event transport, but naive usage hides a major risk. 👉 How can we ensure that a Kafka event always repr...
Join discussionSep 26, 2025 · 6 min read · In the world of microservices and distributed systems, communicating and sharing data between different services is a fundamental necessity. But what happens when a service needs to update its own database and, at the same time, notify other services...
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Sep 22, 2025 · 6 min read · Since I’m currently preparing for job interviews, I’ve been reviewing materials on application design, including microservice architecture. I noticed that most resources on microservice design patterns usually cover things like: API Gateway Service...
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Aug 7, 2025 · 3 min read · Ever built a system where you: Save something to the database Then fire off an event (e.g. send an email or publish to RabbitMQ) And then you pray it doesn’t fail between the DB save and the publish? Yeah. That’s the problem the Outbox Pattern s...
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