We are familiar with transactions in databases, messaging systems and caches. When messaging system works fine, but database transaction fails - we are in big trouble! How to make all this guys work as a team? - What need to be used is distributed transactions or compensation mechanisms. On this talk we see both approaches and discuss how to take advantage of them when we are building Microservices architecture. See code examples here: https://github.com/kslisenko/distributed-transactions