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Atomic Microservices Transactions with MongoDB Transactional Outbox

Deepal Jayasekara
Deepal’s Blog
Published in
6 min readFeb 17, 2022

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One of the drawbacks of the microservices architecture is the difficulty to implement atomic transactions. While this limitation can be overcome by using patterns such as Saga, there are certain situations where we can use an alternative approach to solve this problem without having to implement the rather complicated Saga pattern.

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