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Saga Pattern Guide

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Explains the saga pattern for managing distributed transactions without two-phase commit. Covers choreography-based and orchestration-based sagas, compensation logic, and failure handling strategies for maintaining data consistency across services.

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Saga Pattern Guide

Implement the saga pattern to maintain data consistency across multiple microservices without distributed transactions. Learn both choreography and orchestration approaches with proper compensation handling.

Usage

Ask about implementing sagas for your multi-service workflows, choosing between choreography and orchestration, or designing compensation logic.

Examples

  • "How do I implement a saga for an order-payment-shipping workflow?"
  • "When should I use choreography vs orchestration for sagas?"
  • "How do I handle partial failures in a saga?"

Guidelines

  • Use choreography for simple sagas with few steps
  • Use orchestration for complex sagas with many participants
  • Every forward action must have a corresponding compensating action
  • Design compensating actions to be idempotent and retryable
  • Log all saga steps for debugging and auditing purposes

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