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Eventual Consistency Is Tricky


But there are great patterns to handle it...

If the car rental fails, the saga initiates compensating actions to cancel the flight and hotel bookings, maintaining eventual consistency across the system. Event-Based: Good for building loosely coupled systems that prioritize scalability and flexibility, but consistency takes time due to asynchronous updates. Background Sync: Best for systems where data doesn’t need to be immediately consistent and can be synchronized periodically, leading to slower updates.

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