https://nalar.dev/tags/saga-transactions/ Recent content in Saga Transactions on Nalar Hugo en-us Sat, 12 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0700 https://nalar.dev/saga-transactions-coordinate-multi-service-changes-with-compensation/ Sat, 12 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0700 https://nalar.dev/saga-transactions-coordinate-multi-service-changes-with-compensation/ <h1 id="saga-transactions-coordinate-multi-service-changes-with-compensation">Saga Transactions: Coordinate Multi-Service Changes with Compensation</h1> <p>A business operation can cross several services even when no single database transaction spans them all. An order flow might reserve inventory, authorize payment, create a shipment, and confirm the order. Each service owns its data and commits independently.</p> <p>That independence creates a difficult failure case. Inventory can be reserved successfully, then payment authorization can fail. A database rollback in the order service cannot undo a committed reservation in the inventory service.</p>