Tagged “messaging”

idempotency concurrency messaging distributed-systems dotnet

15 Sep 2026

Idempotency at rest is easy. Two retries arriving at the same moment is the case that breaks the version most teams wrote.

saga-pattern compensation distributed-transactions messaging distributed-systems

22 Sep 2026

Rollback is a database primitive. Distributed systems don't have one, and treating compensation as if they did is how workflows quietly break.

outbox-pattern inbox-pattern messaging resilience distributed-systems

29 Sep 2026

Every outbox explanation assumes the broker is what breaks. Here is what actually happens when the database is the thing that goes away.

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