[majormajor]

That's basically what the database would do anyway, so generally, yes (e.g. even with a RDBMS it's internally got some sort of write log, in most cases). That's gonna help a lot!

It doesn't give you any guarantees about "at a given time" consistency, though. Maybe your queue or your event processor got backed up. So how real-time do you need both sides?

These are, of course, problems that people have solved to varying level of satisfaction for most use cases! But I've seen systems built by people who saw the blog post about "have both!" and then didn't think about all these cases and then... it gets messy.