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Publish, Rename, Archive.

One product moves through its Catalog lifecycle while storefront search follows automatically—without a manual reindex in the story.

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What You Will See

Draft stays absentThe Aurora field camera cannot be found before publication.
Publication creates visibilityThe committed lifecycle change makes the product searchable.
Rename changes discoveryA localized name edit changes which customer query resolves the product.
Archive withdraws itThe product disappears from normal search while Catalog retains its governed record.

The search index follows authoritative product state; it does not invent a second product lifecycle.

Managers change Catalog once. Durable projection work carries the resulting state to customer discovery.

Catalog transactionProduct + outbox commit

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Durable index workCoalesced by product ID

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Current-state rehydrationReload authoritative PostgreSQL state

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Upsert or deleteWrite through Elasticsearch alias

Old event payloads cannot overwrite a newer product because the worker reloads current Catalog state before indexing.

Draft, published, renamed and archived states produce the expected customer search result.

The film does not demonstrate outage recovery, blue-green index rotation or every lifecycle transition.