Life Beyond Distributed Transactions - An Apostate's Implementation

Explore a practical implementation of Pat Helland's groundbreaking paper "Life Beyond Distributed Transactions: An Apostate's Opinion" in this hour-long conference talk. Delve into the challenges of coordinating activities across entities in modern distributed systems, including NoSQL databases, microservices, message queues, and HTTP web services. Learn how to implement coordination between non-transactional resources using real-world examples with Azure Cosmos DB, Azure Service Bus, and Azure SQL Server. Examine a case study where assumptions about transactional success were challenged in production, and discover advanced coordination workflows like Sagas for achieving robust, scalable enterprise-wide coordination. Gain valuable insights into managing distributed systems without relying on distributed transactions, essential knowledge for developers working with contemporary architectures.