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Inbox Pattern: Stop Double-Processing Messages in Distributed Systems

When your consumer crashes after processing but before acknowledging, the broker redelivers — and your system processes the same message twice. The Inbox pattern is the answer to safe, idempotent message consumption.

June 23, 202610 min read

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ArchitecturePatternsReliability

Outbox Pattern: How to Stop Losing Messages in Distributed Systems

When your database transaction commits but the message never reaches the queue, the Outbox pattern is the answer. A practical guide to reliable event publishing without dual-writes.

June 16, 20265 min read

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