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Scenarios & trade-offsMediumSDE-2

Your product service writes to Postgres and then to Elasticsearch in the same request. Sometimes search shows wrong prices or products that were deleted. Why, and how would you redesign the sync?

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

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