The Saga Pattern: Coordinating Work Without a Distributed Transaction

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The Saga Pattern: Coordinating Work Without a Distributed Transaction

A Saga coordinates work across services when one database transaction cannot cover the whole workflow, but it trades atomicity for failure handling and compensation. This post will explain that trade-off, outline orchestration versus choreography, and focus on the questions to ask before adding a distributed workflow at all.