advancedSaga Pattern

Why must every saga step be idempotent?

Event-driven communication (typically Kafka) commonly guarantees at-least-once delivery, so any step can be invoked more than once for the same logical event — non-idempotent steps would double-apply their effect (e.g. double-charging a card).

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