A 5-part blog series on Integration Patterns that are useful for event-driven systems.
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When integrating API's, we sometimes have to tie together steps that can take a long time or might not always be available. If we force the callers of our API's to wait for completion, we find ourselves with some grumpy customers. So what can we do about this?
Like 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.