Orchestration.

also: orchestrated saga · orchestration-based saga · saga orchestrator · saga execution coordinator

Saga coordination by a central orchestrator that tells each service what to do next and runs compensations on failure.

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The orchestrator holds the flow: call payment, then inventory, then shipping.
The whole saga is visible in one place, with its state persisted.
Easier to reason about, test and monitor; the orchestrator must itself be reliable.
Workflow engines such as Temporal make the orchestrator durable.

also: orchestrated saga · orchestration-based saga · saga orchestrator · saga execution coordinator

Saga coordination by a central orchestrator that tells each service what to do next and runs compensations on failure.

The orchestrator holds the flow: call payment, then inventory, then shipping.
The whole saga is visible in one place, with its state persisted.
Easier to reason about, test and monitor; the orchestrator must itself be reliable.
Workflow engines such as Temporal make the orchestrator durable.