Saga Pattern / Workflow Complexity
Kind: tension
Record: tension:saga-pattern-workflow-complexity
Canonical: Schema
"saga-pattern" (execution-core layer) is traded against "Workflow Complexity" (execution-core layer) — a principle cannot be scope-separated from a quality, metric, or cost it competes with; resolve by measuring "Workflow Complexity" and choosing an explicit operating point.
Listed in Tensions, after Eventual Consistency / Strong Immediate Consistency and before Outbox Pattern / Relay Complexity.