Daily Term: Saga Pattern

Saga Pattern

The Saga Pattern is a design approach for handling distributed transactions in microservices. Instead of using a single, atomic transaction across services, a saga breaks the process into a series of local transactions, each managed by a service. If a step fails, compensating transactions (rollbacks) are executed to undo previous steps. Sagas can be implemented as choreography (services communicate via events) or orchestration (a central coordinator manages the flow), offering fault tolerance but requiring careful error handling.

Date: 2025-05-20