intermediateOutbox, Inbox & CDC

Why is CDC (via Debezium) preferred over a hand-written polling relay?

CDC reads the database's own commit log directly, so it only ever sees truly committed changes and can resume precisely after a crash — a polling relay's separate "publish" and "mark published" steps have their own smaller dual-write gap.

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