Microservices have emerged as the dominant application development paradigm in the software world today. It has tremendous benefits both from a business and technical perspective due to its fundamental characteristics of agility, scalability, and resiliency.
However, implementing microservices are hard! The inherently distributed nature of this architectural pattern introduces complexity across multiple areas especially around Transaction Management, Data Consistency, and Process Automation. In a distributed system, Business Transactions can span across multiple services. Since we no longer have the ability to run a single ACID transaction, it requires careful coordination across these services to ensure that you have a consistent and reliable system at the end of a business process.
Solutions to solve this “coordination” problem have led to the rise of a new set of application patterns that can be broadly classified into two main groups - Choreography and Orchestration.
