Colt is the founder of LittleHorse Enterprises and the original author of the LittleHorse Orchestrator. He's a passionate Apache Kafka fan and loves hockey, golf, piano, cooking, and Taekwondo.
View all authorsLike the Saga Pattern, the Transactional Outbox pattern is tool for defending against data loss in your applications. In this blog we cover how it works and how to do it easier using LittleHorse.
The Saga pattern allows you to defend against data loss, dropped orders, and confused (or grumpy) customers. While useful, the Saga pattern is tricky to get right without an orchestrator.
While they are often necessary, microservices are a headache. Fortunately, the right workflow engine (such as LittleHorse) can drastically reduce the difficulty of managing microservices.
Microservices are often necessary, but unfortunately they bring with them some baggage.
If microservices add so much complexity, why bother with the hassle?