Summary
In this chapter, we explored two primary approaches to implementing sagas: choreography and orchestration. Choreography enables decentralized, event-driven workflows that enhance flexibility and scalability but can lead to complex failure handling and debugging. Orchestration, on the other hand, centralizes process control through an orchestrator, making monitoring and compensation easier but introducing tighter coupling. We also examined the Process Manager pattern, which provides structured workflow control but can become a single point of failure if not properly managed.
Additionally, we discussed key strategies for error handling and transaction recovery, including compensating transactions, durable execution, and event-sourced sagas. These techniques ensure that distributed transactions remain reliable even in the face of system failures.
The skills you have learned by completing this chapter include the ability to do the following:
- Evaluate different...
