Five Executables, One Database — the Reckoning
The honest ledger for the whole estate - what coordinating through tables actually cost, what genuinely earned its keep, and what I would reach for now instead of using the database as a message bus.
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A Work Queue in a Table Named Tolerance
When one job needs another to redo work, it leaves a row - an action enum, a rewind date and a Done flag standing in for a message broker, plus the delete-and-replay proc that makes reruns possible.
The Database Is the Message Bus
Five executables, zero queues - how an attendance platform coordinated a web app, three Azure Functions and a console job through one SQL database, and what that choice bought and cost. Part 1 of the series.