Distributed systems is the field that quietly runs the modern internet — and it has a reputation for being brutally hard to break into. Open the wrong 600-page tome first and you’l
Sagas for AI Agents: Undoing What an Agent Already Did
We are racing to hand AI agents real power — agents that book travel, file expenses, edit files, move money, and deploy code, mostly on their own. The demos are dazzling. But there
Saga Orchestration vs. Choreography: How to Choose
Once you’ve decided a business operation needs a saga — a multi-step process spread across independent systems, where each step can be undone if a later one fails — you immediately
Observing Distributed Workflows: How to Tell a Saga Is Healthy
When a single database transaction goes wrong, you look in one place and you see it. A saga is not so kind. It smears one logical operation — place an order, book a trip, onboard a
What Is the Saga Pattern? All-or-Nothing Across Many Steps
Book a trip online and one click quietly kicks off a small chain of events: charge your card, reserve the hotel, hold the flight seat, book the rental car, email your confirmation.