Distributed Transaction

distributedsystem/microservice distributedsystem

Lecture 12: Distributed Transactions

[!video]- Two Phase Commit - Distributed Transactions | Systems Design Interview 0 to 1 with Ex-Google SWE

[!video]- Distributed Systems 7.1: Two-phase commit

Distributed Transactions in Go: Read Before You Try | Three Dots Labs blog
Transactions Across Microservices | Baeldung

Understanding Distributed Systems, Chapter 11
Monolith to Microservice, Chapter 4

A transaction is a way to group several reads and writes into a logical unit to maintain data consistency across services.
They execute atomically, as a single operation, and the entire transaction either succeeds (commit) or fails (abort, rollback).

Anti Pattern

• Anti-pattern: distributed transactions

• THEORY: Distributed Transactions and why you should avoid them (2 Phase Commit , Saga Pattern, TCC, Idempotency etc) · GitHub

• Distributed Transactions - Commits

  • Two Phase Commit (Blocking Commit Protocol)
  • The Saga Pattern