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The Saga pattern breaks a distributed transaction into smaller local transactions with compensating actions for rollback. It ensures eventual consistency and is implemented via choreography (events) or orchestration (coordinator service).
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The Saga pattern breaks a distributed transaction into steps. Each step does a local DB transaction and publishes an event. The next service picks it up and does its step. If any step fails, compensating transactions undo the previous steps. Example: book hotel -> book flight -> charge card. If card fails, cancel hotel and flight bookings.
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