How to Implement Transactional Outbox Pattern with DynamoDB

Transactional Consistency in Event-Driven Applications: The DynamoDB Streams Approach

This episode will cover:

• The challenge of maintaining atomic operations in distributed event-driven applications
• Why traditional transaction support is missing in distributed environments
• A practical problem scenario: e-commerce order processing with failed event publishing
• The transactional outbox pattern as a solution for atomic persistence and event publishing
• How to implement this pattern using DynamoDB Streams and Lambda functions
• Technical setup and configuration requirements
• Code examples for persisting data and processing stream updates
• Approaches for handling failures and preventing message duplication
• The benefits of delegating infrastructure concerns to managed services

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