Cloud Bits: Dancing Through Failures – Saga Pattern for Resilient Microservices (opens in new tab)

In any software application we generally require talking to multiple microservices to achieve a single business outcome. An example of this outcome can be performing a checkout on an e-commerce application which might require charging the customer’s payment method, reserving an inventory & adding an order record. In a typical monolithic systems these operations can be done in a transactional manner as we are generally dealing with a single database. But as we move to the world of microservice...