Data Consistency in Microservice Using Sagas

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Chris Richardson discusses messaging, durability, and reliability in microservice architectures leveraging the Saga Pattern. He shows how sagas work and how they differ from traditional transactions, and describes how to use sagas to develop business logic in a microservices application. He also describes the design of a saga framework for Java and shows a sample application.

This presentation was recorded at QCon San Francisco 2017.