Compensating Transaction / Business Complexity
Kind: tension
Record: tension:business-complexity-compensating-transaction
Canonical: Schema
"compensating-transaction" (execution-core layer) is traded against "Business Complexity" (execution-core layer) — a principle cannot be scope-separated from a quality, metric, or cost it competes with; resolve by measuring "Business Complexity" and choosing an explicit operating point.
Listed in Tensions, after Outbox Pattern / Relay Complexity and before Append-Only Log / Storage Growth.