Core Patterns • July 14, 2025 • 4 min read
Outbox vs CDC — Picking the Right Tool
Transactional outbox and Change Data Capture solve the same problem differently. The practical trade-offs, and how to decide between them for your system.
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Core Patterns • June 21, 2023 • 5 min read
Transactional Outbox — The Pattern, End to End
Why "save to DB, then publish to Kafka" is almost always wrong, and the outbox pattern that fixes it — with real Java code, schema, and production considerations.