Caitie McCaffrey gave a talk on this subject at GOTO Chicago 2015 [1], refreshing the 'Saga Pattern' for a distributed environment. Short summary, IIRC: 1) Us

Caitie McCaffrey gave a talk on this subject at GOTO Chicago 2015 [1], refreshing the 'Saga Pattern' for a distributed environment. Short summary, IIRC: 1) Use a linearizable data store to store transaction metadata 2) Each step must have a complementary rollback step 3) Rollback steps must be idempotent. Depending on the type transaction, sometimes 'rollback' is too strong and you instead implement other types of recovery (e.g. 'roll-forward') [1] http://gotocon.com/chicago-2015/presentation/Applying%20the%20Saga%20Pattern http://gotocon.com/chicago-2015/presentation/Applying%20the%...