Distributed Systems
GDPR Deletion in Event-Driven Systems
Deleting a user across many services is a fan-out problem with a nasty twist: what your deletion event means. Requested or executed changes everything.
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Distributed Systems
Kafka Topic Naming and Governance
Ad-hoc Kafka topics become an unnavigable mess. A naming convention plus a single canonical registry keeps an event bus legible as it grows past 50 topics.
Distributed Systems
The Transactional Outbox Pattern
Writing to your database and publishing an event are two operations that can't share a transaction. The outbox pattern fixes that, and when to skip it.