5 Transactions and queries in microservices
This chapter covers
- The challenges of consistency in a distributed application
- Synchronous and asynchronous communication
- Using sagas to develop business logic across multiple services
- API composition and CQRS for microservice queries
Many monolithic applications rely on transactions to guarantee consistency and isolation when changing application state. Obtaining these properties is straightforward: an application typically interacts with a single database, with strong consistency guarantees, using frameworks that provide support for starting, committing, or rolling back transactional operations. Each logical transaction might involve several distinct entities; for example, placing an order ...
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