Consumers/Producers Migrations Strategies
Introduction Migrating systems brings an entirely different set of challenges: doing it without downtime, keeping data consistency, and ensuring a seamless e...
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Semantic Versioning is Just an Estimate
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Solving Dual-writes: Change Data Capture, The Outbox Pattern, and Event Sourcing
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Partial execution: At-most-once vs. At-least-once Deliveries
A workflow inside a microservice typically writes stuff to a database and produces a message or API request to another service.