Hidden Distributed Transaction

Kind: anti-pattern

Layer: Atomic Boundary

Record: lexicon:hidden-distributed-transaction

Canonical: Lexicon

A transaction that silently spans service boundaries, coupling systems that should commit independently.

Listed in Lexicon terms, after Consistency Rules and before Large Transaction Scope.

Category

• Transactions / State / Concurrency

Violates

• Saga Pattern
• Transaction Boundary

Negated by

• Transaction Boundary

Linked from

• Event / Messaging / Asynchronous Architecture
• Transactions / State / Concurrency