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Saga choreography vs saga orchestration

Growingest.Started 4 Sept 20261 min read#system-design#engineering

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Where it sits: Distributed transactions

Either each service triggers the next one, or there is an orchestrator managing the whole thing.
Queen was an orchestrator whereas in PIMS, it was choreography style, retriever triggers transformer, etc.

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