
Saga Pattern and Distributed Transactions — How to Avoid Disaster in Microservices
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You have microservices in Kubernetes, the system works, but when a call slows down you don't know where it comes from. T...

The problem is as old as relational databases: you update a record, you lose history. An order changes status, a price g...
You are designing a microservices architecture. Service A needs to talk to B, C, and D, but synchronous calls would bloc...
You have a service that must handle thousands of requests per second, or a microservice that needs to start and respond...
Your microservice speaks only HTTP? Great. But when you have five, ten, fifty, you need a central point to handle authen...

The monolith works fine when you’re three people on it. Then the fifth developer arrives, a single deploy takes twenty m...
You are building a Node.js backend and the framework choice seems obvious. Express is everywhere, historic, billions of...

You have microservices, but your teams still argue about what a 'customer' is. The database is shared, APIs speak differ...

The call always comes the same way: “Our monolith can’t keep up anymore. We need microservices.” We have been hearing th...

Your application is live. It works. Then, without warning, it starts slowing down. Some users complain. The server looks...