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Software Architecture and Design
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Software Architecture and Design

by Rheinwerk Publishing, Inc, Kristian Köhler
April 2026
Intermediate
491 pages
18h 4m
English
Packt Publishing
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7.8    Saga Pattern: The Distributed Transactions Pattern

The saga pattern enables you to achieve data consistency across multiple transactionally protected services in distributed environments.

7.8.1    Problem and Motivation

In modern architectures, systems are often divided into many small, loosely coupled, and independent services or modules. If the database per service pattern has been applied, each service also has its own persistence layer to store its data.

These circumstances make it almost impossible to carry out a classic technical transaction that includes data access for several services and thus to consistently implement complex business processes that extend across multiple services or modules in the various databases.

This limitation ...

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