Listen to yourself pattern: Is it an alternative to the Outbox Pattern?
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So, you need consistency between making state changes to your database and publishing events to a message broker for other services to consume. A common pattern to handle this situation is the Outbox Pattern, but another pattern called Listen to Yourself tries to solve the consistency issue. Does it work? Well lets find out.
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