In this article, Metin Barkın Narin discusses the distributed transaction management problem in microservices architecture and suggests two approaches for addressing the problem: two-phase commit (2PC) and Saga. While 2PC can provide transaction management in a distributed system, it also becomes the single point of failure and impacts the overall performance due to the chattiness of the coordinator. Saga, on the other hand, provides a more decentralized and resilient approach to handling transactions. It is crucial to address these problems while designing microservices-based applications and choose an appropriate approach based on the applications specific requirements.
