Saga rollback when half the steps succeeded — the...
A saga is fine when every step succeeds. The interesting code is what runs when step 3 of 5 fails and you have to undo 1 and 2 in the right order. The patterns I use.
The saga pattern manages distributed transactions by breaking them into compensable local transactions. These articles cover saga orchestration in Go, compensation logic design, and how sagas provide data consistency across services without requiring distributed locks.
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A saga is fine when every step succeeds. The interesting code is what runs when step 3 of 5 fails and you have to undo 1 and 2 in the right order. The patterns I use.
All posts on this site are written by Pratik Dhanave, an Agentic AI Architect with 7+ years building production distributed systems, multi-agent AI platforms, and cloud-native infrastructure. About the author → Each article includes working code, architecture diagrams, and references to the specific frameworks and standards discussed. Browse all posts or explore related topics using the tag cloud above.