Lesson 169 - Atomic vs Eventual Transactions

In lesson 109 I talked about BASE transactions and eventual consistency in distributed architectures. In this lesson I dive deeper into the differences between ACID and BASE transactions, and what it means to have an “atomic” transaction in a distributed architecture. I then compare atomic transactions to eventual consistency transactions, showing the differences for both happy path (when things go well) to error conditions (when things do not go so well).

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[YigitcanNalc]

thank you Mark, it is a good explanation.

[ren.oooooo]

It took a while but I have watched all of your videos and taken notes on them. great resource

[kamilrenczewski]

There is a still important topic to address: what to do if during `undoing` changes the orchestrator fails and can't undo changes for one or more domain services?

[SasanPlus]

What if compensating legs fail. What is the orchestrator fails during either of the states? Some state has to be maintained