What's the relationship between the two?
Both are for atomic operations. Both results need to be either success, or failure with rollback to original state.
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Sign up to join this communityBoth the saga and unit of work patterns intend to ensure consistency of related operations, but at different levels:
The saga pattern aims at ensuring consistency across independent services and without using a two phase commit.
The unit of work pattern aims at ensuring consistency (usually within a system) by making sure that the object states and the database states remain aligned according to a transactional logic (i.e database commit or two phase commit).