# Atomic Boundary

> The rules governing atomicity — a transactional boundary that fully commits or fully rolls back, no partial commit, no deferring within.

Record: `algorithms:atomic-boundary`
Kind: algorithm
Layer: [Atomic Boundary](https://banes-lab.com/records/layer/atomic-boundary.md)
Canonical: https://banes-lab.com/ontology/algorithms#algorithms-atomic-boundary
Closure: https://banes-lab.com/json/records/algorithms/atomic-boundary/closure

Listed in [Algorithm contracts](https://banes-lab.com/api/records/algorithms.md), after [Enforcement Core](https://banes-lab.com/records/algorithms/enforcement-core.md) and before [Human Factors](https://banes-lab.com/records/algorithms/human-factors.md).

## Domain

- [Architectural Clusters](https://banes-lab.com/records/algorithms-domain/architectural-clusters.md)

## Tier

- [exempt](https://banes-lab.com/records/vocabulary/domain-tier-exempt.md)

## Principle

- [Atomicity](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/atomicity.md)

## Composed by

- [Immediacy Over Deferring](https://banes-lab.com/records/algorithms/no-deferring.md)
- [Atomic Boundary Over Partial Commit](https://banes-lab.com/records/algorithms/no-partial-commit.md)

## Contract of

- [Atomic Boundary](https://banes-lab.com/records/layer/atomic-boundary.md)

## Linked from

- [Transactions / State / Concurrency](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/principles/architecture-category-transactions-state-concurrency.md)
- [Architectural Rules](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/algorithms/algorithms-domain-architectural-rules.md)
- [Domain tiers](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/schema/the-vocabulary-domain-tier.md)
- [The layer topology](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/schema/the-layer-topology.md)