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Well that's the thing isn't it. As soon as you move away from the atomicity of a relational database you can't guarantee anything. And then we, like you do to,

Well that's the thing isn't it. As soon as you move away from the atomicity of a relational database you can't guarantee anything. And then we, like you do to, resort to cleanup jobs everywhere trying to rectify problems. I think that's one of the things people rarely think of when moving to microservices. Just how much effort needs to be made to rectify errors.

marcosdumay 5y ago
> you can't guarantee anything You can always guarantee atomicity. You will just have to implement it yourself (what is not easy, but always possible, unless there are conflicting requisites of performance and network distribution). And yes, the cleanup jobs are part of how you implement it. But you shouldn't be "trying to rectify the problems", you should be rectifying the problems, with certainty.