expertTwo-Phase Commit (2PC)
In a system design interview, when would choosing 2PC over Saga actually be the right call?
When strict, immediate consistency is a hard regulatory or correctness requirement, participant count is small and tightly controlled, and the availability/scaling cost is acceptable — genuinely rare in typical high-scale web/mobile backend systems, but real in some financial core-banking contexts.
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