Message-queue

Published on
November 16, 2025
The Outbox Is Not Optional: Message Reliability from First Principles, Through the Crash Window in "Write the DB, Then Send the Message"
Architecture Web-Queue-Worker Message-Queue Outbox MassTransit
Unpacking the core tradeoffs of Web-Queue-Worker: why the Web tier must "publish, never wait," why the Outbox is a precondition for correctness rather than an optimization, and why scheduled jobs can't use a bare Timer — each argued from mechanism, "why this and not the other."

The Outbox Is Not Optional: Message Reliability from First Principles, Through the Crash Window in "Write the DB, Then Send the Message"