expertSaga Pattern

How would you design the ordering of steps in a saga with one genuinely irreversible action (like sending a physical package)?

Place the irreversible action as the very last step in the saga, after every reversible step has already succeeded — this minimizes the window in which a failure would leave something un-compensable.

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