advanced~2.5h
The Saga Pattern
If 2PC doesn't survive real production microservices, what actually does? This module is the pattern nearly every real distributed system uses instead.
Learning objectives
- Beginner: Explain what a compensating transaction is and why Sagas need them.
- Intermediate: Trace through a multi-step Saga's happy path and its failure/rollback path.
- Advanced: Choose between choreography-based and orchestration-based Saga implementation for a given system's complexity.
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The Saga Pattern