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The Saga Pattern

The document discusses the complexities of transaction management in microservices architectures compared to monolithic applications. It highlights the limitations of traditional transaction management when dealing with multiple databases and suggests the use of the Saga pattern as a more effective solution. The post aims to explain the necessity of sophisticated transaction management in microservices and various approaches to implementing the Saga pattern.

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The Saga Pattern

The document discusses the complexities of transaction management in microservices architectures compared to monolithic applications. It highlights the limitations of traditional transaction management when dealing with multiple databases and suggests the use of the Saga pattern as a more effective solution. The post aims to explain the necessity of sophisticated transaction management in microservices and various approaches to implementing the Saga pattern.

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The Saga Pattern

In enterprise applications, nearly every request is executed within a database


transaction.
Developers often use frameworks and libraries with declarative mechanisms to
simplify transaction management.
The Spring framework, for example, uses a special annotation to arrange for
method invocations to be automatically executed within a transaction. This
annotation simplifies writing transactional business logic, making it easier to
manage transactions in a monolithic application that accesses a single database.
However, while transaction management is relatively straightforward in a monolithic
application accessing a single database, it becomes more complex in scenarios
involving multiple databases and message brokers.
For example, in a microservice architecture, business transactions span multiple
services, each with its database. This complexity makes the traditional transaction
approach impractical. Instead, microservices-based applications must adopt
alternative mechanisms to manage transactions effectively.
In this post, we’ll learn why microservices-based applications require a more
sophisticated approach to transaction management, such as using the Saga
pattern. We’ll also understand the different approaches to implementing the Saga
pattern in an application.

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