The Saga Pattern in a Reactive Microservices Environment

ŠTEFANKO, Martin, Ondřej CHALOUPKA and Bruno ROSSI. The Saga Pattern in a Reactive Microservices Environment. Online. In Marten van Sinderen and Leszek Maciaszek. 14th International Conference on Software Technologies (ICSOFT 2019). Prague: SciTePress, 2019, p. 483-490. ISBN 978-989-758-379-7. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.5220/0007918704830490.

Basic information

• Original name: The Saga Pattern in a Reactive Microservices Environment
• Authors: ŠTEFANKO, Martin (703 Slovakia, belonging to the institution), Ondřej CHALOUPKA (203 Czech Republic) and Bruno ROSSI (380 Italy, guarantor, belonging to the institution).
• Edition: Prague, 14th International Conference on Software Technologies (ICSOFT 2019), p. 483-490, 8 pp. 2019.
• Publisher: SciTePress

Other information

• Original language: English
• Type of outcome: Proceedings paper
• Field of Study: 10201 Computer sciences, information science, bioinformatics
• Country of publisher: United States of America
• Confidentiality degree: is not subject to a state or trade secret
• Publication form: electronic version available online
• RIV identification code: RIV/00216224:14330/19:00110315
• Organization unit: Faculty of Informatics
• ISBN: 978-989-758-379-7
• Doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.5220/0007918704830490
• UT WoS: 000572825100050
• Keywords in English: Saga Pattern; Compensating Transactions; Reactive Microservices; Distributed Systems
• Tags: firank_B
• Tags: International impact, Reviewed

Abstract

Transaction processing is a critical aspect of modern software systems. Such criticality increased over the years with the emergence of microservices, calling for appropriate management of transactions across separated application domains, ensuring the whole system can recover and operate in a possible degraded state. The Saga pattern emerged as a way to define compensating actions in the context of long-lived transactions. In this work, we discuss the relation between traditional transaction processing models and the Saga pattern targeting specifically the distributed environment of reactive microservices applications. In this context, we provide a comparison of the current state of transaction support in four Java-based enterprise application frameworks for microservices support: Axon, Eventuate Event Sourcing (ES), Eventuate Tram, and MicroProfile Long Running Actions (LRA).

Links

• EF16_019/0000822, research and development project: Name: Centrum excelence pro kyberkriminalitu, kyberbezpečnost a ochranu kritických informačních infrastruktur