https://nalar.dev/tags/sagas/ Recent content in Sagas on Nalar Hugo en-us Tue, 22 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://nalar.dev/saga-compensation-is-not-transaction-rollback/ Tue, 22 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://nalar.dev/saga-compensation-is-not-transaction-rollback/ <h1 id="saga-compensation-is-not-transaction-rollback">Saga Compensation Is Not Transaction Rollback</h1> <p>A multi-service operation can cross inventory, payments, shipping, and other independently committed systems. Once one service commits its step, a later failure cannot make that earlier commit disappear through an ordinary database rollback.</p> <p>A saga handles this boundary by pairing forward actions with explicit recovery actions. If a later step fails, the coordinator invokes compensations for earlier completed steps where the business process permits them.</p>