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Payment is authorization

Agents shouldn't need an account for every utility API. With x402, payment can become authorization and pricing can become route metadata.

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DynamoDB Streams is not an outbox

A stream handler isn't an outbox. The transactional outbox pattern is the natural way to solve the dual write problem, but it can be …

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Send your events later

Turn deferred event delivery into an EventBridge primitive so any app can schedule work without managing EventBridge Scheduler itself.

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