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Transactions in microservices

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I have read some articles about microservices architecture, but no one takes the topic of transaction. All that they says that this is hard to do it. Maybe someone can describe how to handle this?

But not from domain side, but from technology side. Lets say that we have business case where we need to invoke two different services and both of them make some changes on database. But how to rollback if some error occurs on the second one?

Who knows some libraries or design patter for this problem?

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KirkoR Avatar asked Jul 10 '14 12:07

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I may not be the ultimate expert in this, but I'm sure you're heading towards the Distributed Transactions. In order to have them running, all the application service components need a common shared transaction id, and you have to make sure that every component is informed about the state of the transaction. It is asynchronous, so you'll require substantial prog skills.

Here are distributed transactions mentioned or discussed:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_transaction

http://contino.co.uk/microservices-not-a-free-lunch/

http://martinfowler.com/articles/microservices.html

It would seem people try to avoid it as it is difficult. Maybe that's why you don't find much about.

Hope this helps a step forward :-)

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peter_the_oak Avatar answered Sep 25 '22 23:09

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