Choreography vs Orchestration: Where Saga State and Failures Live
Compare choreography vs orchestration for microservice sagas: where workflow state lives, failure handling, coupling, observability and when to use each.
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distributed transactions
The Saga Pattern: Distributed Transactions Without Two-Phase Commit
How the saga pattern replaces two-phase commit with local transactions and compensating actions, and how to design for its anomalies, failures and costs.
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Saga Pattern Orchestration vs Choreography: Choosing Where State Lives
Learn how sagas replace distributed transactions, how orchestration and choreography differ, how to design compensating actions, and when to use each.
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