The author says the outbox pattern should "always" be used. I agree with the goal -- one should definitely never publish an event externally before it is commi

The author says the outbox pattern should "always" be used. I agree with the goal -- one should definitely never publish an event externally before it is committed to DB! But I think using a "post-commit sequence number" is even more powerful than the outbox pattern. Sadly few DBs seems to supoort this well with low latency. CosmosDB has great support for a post commit low latency change feed A hack for mssql is here: https://github.com/vippsas/mssql-changefeed/blob/main/MOTIVATION.md https://github.com/vippsas/mssql-changefeed/blob/main/MOTIVA... More about this way of publishing events: https://github.com/vippsas/zeroeventhub https://github.com/vippsas/zeroeventhub