saga-orchestration

Managing distributed transactions across microservices without two-phase commit requires implementing saga patterns. Sagas coordinate multi-service workflows using compensating actions to rollback partial failures instead of relying on fragile global locks.

Saga orchestration uses a centralized coordinator to direct multi-service workflows, while saga choreography relies on an event bus for decentralized event-based communication. Both approaches provide compensating transactions to handle partial failures.

To rollback partial failures in a microservice workflow, you implement compensating transactions within a saga. Each participant service defines a compensation command that reverses its specific action when a downstream step fails.

Yes, saga distributed transactions require a saga coordinator store and an event bus. Participant services must also implement defined action and compensation commands with idempotent safeguards and reliable retry logic.

You should use a saga instead of two-phase commit because sagas avoid fragile distributed locks that block availability. Sagas provide per-step timeouts, fault tolerance, and production-grade patterns for failure recovery, auditing, and monitoring.

Yes, you can handle per-step timeouts and failure recovery in cross-service processes using saga patterns. They offer production-grade debugging patterns and reliable retry logic to ensure long-running business processes achieve atomic results.