This article was originally published on AI Study Room . For the full version with working code examples and related articles, visit the original post. Distributed Transactions: Sagas, Two-Phase Commit, Outbox Pattern, and Idempotency Once you split a monolith into microservices, database transactions that used to be a simple BEGIN/COMMIT suddenly span multiple services and databases. Distributed transactions are the hardest problem in microservices — and getting them wrong corrupts data. This guide covers the production patterns: sagas, two-phase commit, the outbox pattern, and idempotency.…