advancedDistributed Transactions: Why 2PC Fails at Scale
Why can't @Transactional alone keep two different services' databases consistent?
@Transactional guarantees atomicity within ONE database connection — it has no mechanism for guaranteeing that a write in one service's database and a write in a completely separate service's database either both happen or neither does.
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