# Irreversible Side Effects

> Performing side effects that cannot be undone within a workflow that may need to roll back.

Record: `lexicon:irreversible-side-effects`
Kind: anti-pattern
Layer: [Execution Core](https://banes-lab.com/records/layer/execution-core.md)
Canonical: https://banes-lab.com/ontology/lexicon#lexicon-irreversible-side-effects

Listed in [Lexicon terms](https://banes-lab.com/api/records/lexicon.md), after [Internal Domain Event Leakage](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon/internal-domain-event-leakage.md) and before [Mutable State Only](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon/mutable-state-only.md).

## Category

- [Event Messaging Async](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon-category/event-messaging-async.md)

## Negated by

- [Compensating Transaction](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/compensating-transaction.md)

## Linked from

- [Event / Messaging / Asynchronous Architecture](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/principles/architecture-category-event-messaging-asynchronous-architecture.md)