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Messaging & event-driven designMediumSDE-2

Product data lives in Postgres and search runs on Elasticsearch. The current code writes to both, and they drift apart. How would you keep them in sync?

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Design a search indexing pipeline (CDC to Elasticsearch) Lesson: Transactional outbox and change data capture

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