<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Isaac Olanrewaju — Blog</title><description>Isaac Olanrewaju is a backend engineer writing about reliable financial infrastructure: ledgers, payment integrations, reconciliation, agency banking, and APIs that teams can trust.</description><link>https://isaacolanrewaju.com/</link><language>en</language><item><title>Your database and Kafka are lying to each other</title><link>https://isaacolanrewaju.com/blog/database-kafka-outbox/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://isaacolanrewaju.com/blog/database-kafka-outbox/</guid><description>The transactional outbox pattern fixes the dual-write problem between your database and Kafka without pretending distributed commits are easy.</description><pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>architecture</category><category>database</category><category>kafka</category><category>postgres</category><category>payments</category></item></channel></rss>