Outbox Pattern / Relay Complexity
Kind: tension
Record: tension:outbox-pattern-relay-complexity
Canonical: Schema
"outbox-pattern" (execution-core layer) is traded against "Relay Complexity" (execution-core layer) — a principle cannot be scope-separated from a quality, metric, or cost it competes with; resolve by measuring "Relay Complexity" and choosing an explicit operating point.
Listed in Tensions, after Saga Pattern / Workflow Complexity and before Compensating Transaction / Business Complexity.