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The Transactional Outbox Pattern reliably coordinates a database change with publishing a message or event. Instead of updating the database and sending a message as two independent operations, the application writes both the business data and an outbox record in the same database transaction.

A Transactional Outbox is a reliability pattern that keeps a database change and the event or message describing that change consistent without requiring a distributed transaction between the database and a message broker.

Distributed applications often need to update a database and publish a message as part of one business operation. An order service may save a confirmed order and publish an order.confirmed event. A payment service may record a successful charge and notify fulfilment. If one action succeeds while the