spring-boot-saga-pattern

Implement distributed transactions in Spring Boot microservices using the Saga Pattern to coordinate compensating transactions and ensure eventual consistency. You can design choreography or orchestration flows to manage transaction rollback when a service fails.

Choreography uses an event-driven approach where services react to events, while orchestration uses a centralized coordinator to manage the saga flow. This Skill supports both approaches using message brokers like Kafka, RabbitMQ, or the Axon Framework.

Handle transaction rollback by defining compensating transactions for each step in your Saga. When a service fails, these compensating actions execute to undo previous local transactions, ensuring data consistency across your microservices architecture.

Yes, you can use Kafka or RabbitMQ for event-driven Saga coordination in Spring Boot. You need to configure the message broker for transactional ID and exactly-once semantics to reliably handle distributed transactions and compensating actions.

No, the Axon Framework is not strictly required. You can build orchestration flows using standard message brokers like Kafka or RabbitMQ, though Axon Framework is fully supported as an implementation option for managing your Saga.

The Saga Pattern provides eventual consistency rather than strict ACID isolation, meaning intermediate states may be visible during transaction processing. Careful design of compensating transactions and idempotency is required to handle partial failures across microservices.