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Saga Pattern on AWS — Distributed Transactions with Compensation

By | December 31, 2025

What you’ll learn The problem: distributed transactions without a 2PC In a monolith, you might wrap changes in a single database transaction. In microservices (or distributed systems), a single business action often spans multiple components: You can’t easily use a single ACID transaction across multiple independent datastores and services (and you generally shouldn’t). Saga is… Read More »