What Is the Outbox Pattern, and How Does Change Data Capture (CDC) Work at a High Level?

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What Is the Outbox Pattern, and How Does Change Data Capture (CDC) Work at a High Level?

The Outbox pattern is a microservice design strategy that stores events in an “outbox” table within the same database transaction as a business operation to ensure reliable, atomic event publishing, and Change Data Capture (CDC) is a technique that non-intrusively monitors database transaction logs to detect and propagate data changes (inserts, updates, deletes) to other systems or event streams in real time.

Understanding the Outbox Pattern

The Outbox Pattern is used in [distributed systems](https://www.designgurus

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