XA scales well enough for many workloads. I believe that too many developers discard solutions like XA because it "scales quite poorly" without doing serious an

XA scales well enough for many workloads. I believe that too many developers discard solutions like XA because it "scales quite poorly" without doing serious analysis of how much scalability they are likely to need and whether XA scales well enough to support it. On the flip side I believe that too many developers underestimate the complexity of managing state and failure in distributed systems.