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Making the Saga Pattern Work Without All the Headaches

We’ve all been at that point in a project when we realize that our software processes are more complex than we thought. Handling this process complexity has traditionally been painful, but it doesn’t have to be.

The New Stack24 Mar 2023 · summary

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Part The Problem with Sagas We’ve all been at that point in a project when we realize that our software processes are more complex than we thought. The Saga pattern emerged to cope with a pressing need in complex software processes: durable execution. Companies have been moving in the right direction in their use of the Saga pattern to handle context switching in software processes. It leaves us with the same problem, which is that the plumbing code will ultimately become unmanageable.

Editorial note: This is a summary of an article first published by The New Stack. The full piece is on their site.

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