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5 questions in Sagas & Compensation.

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A long-running customer workflow spanning payment, verification, notification and fulfilment must survive worker crashes and deploys mid-flow. Compare a hand-written saga with a durable-execution engine.

A marketplace charges the customer, pays the merchant, pays the courier and takes a fee. Design the transaction, and say what happens if the courier payment fails.

A shipping aggregator books a shipment across carrier, warehouse, payment and notification systems, with no shared transaction available. Which coordination pattern fits, and what are the compensations that cannot exist?

Design the order-fulfilment saga for a marketplace where sellers can cancel, buyers can cancel, payments can fail asynchronously hours later, and items are unique. What states and compensations are required, and where does orchestration beat choreography?

In an order saga, the shipment service permanently rejects an order after the card has been captured. What now?