Anyone who manages an external system from a Laravel app eventually hits the same uncomfortable truth: your database thinks one thing, the external system thinks another, and nobody told either of them they'd drifted apart. Today I spent most of my time on the unglamorous-but-essential side of r...
Source: [Dev.to](https://dev.to/nasrulhazim/when-your-app-and-the-gateway-disagree-orphan-cleanup-and-state-reconciliation-4igg)