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The Saga pattern coordinates distributed transactions across multiple services by composing local transactions with compensations to maintain overall consistency.
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A long-running transaction is split into steps, each paired with a compensating action; when a later step fails, the already-committed steps are undone in reverse order via their compensations, because a distributed transaction cannot hold a lock across all the resources at once.
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