microservice-design-patterns

microservice-design-patterns is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from j4flmao/agent-skills. It costs 24 tokens per session (747 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to patterns for systems split into small services, including SAGA, CQRS, and event sourcing. These patterns coordinate work and data across services that communicate separately.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to design distributed transactions, compensating actions, event-based communication, and service architectures with separate read and write concerns.
Why use it?
It helps address consistency and coordination problems when one business operation spans multiple services.

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Good fit Use it to design distributed transactions, compensating actions, event-based communication, and service architectures with separate read and write concerns.

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skills/backend/universal/design-patterns/microservices/SKILL.md · 62 lines

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Advanced Microservice Architecture Patterns

Distributed systems demand rigorous data consistency models and scalable communication pipelines. This reference explores advanced patterns for transaction management and state propagation in highly decoupled topologies.

1. The SAGA Pattern: Distributed Transactions

In microservices, traditional ACID transactions (2PC/Two-Phase Commit) are antipatterns due to synchronous blocking and lock contention. SAGA mitigates this by decomposing a distributed transaction into a sequence of local ACID transactions.

If a local transaction fails, the SAGA executes compensating transactions to rollback the preceding steps, achieving eventual consistency.

Choreography vs. Orchestration

  • Choreography (Event-Driven): Services publish domain events upon completing their local transactions. Other services subscribe to these events and trigger their respective local transactions. There is no centralized controller.
    • Pros: Highly decoupled, no single point of failure.
    • Cons: Emergent complexity; difficult to trace the lifecycle of a complex transaction.
  • Orchestration (Command-Driven): A centralized orchestrator (e.g., an AWS Step Function or Camunda engine) manages the transaction lifecycle. It issues commands to participant services and handles failure logic.
    • Pros: Centralized observability, straightforward compensation logic.
    • Cons: The orchestrator can become a god-object and a bottleneck.

2. CQRS: Command Query Responsibility Segregation

CQRS separates the data modification (Command) and data retrieval (Query) pipelines, acknowledging that read and write workloads scale asymmetrically and require different storage paradigms.

  • Command Model: Highly normalized, focuses on business rules, validation, and transaction boundaries. Often backed by a relational database or event store.
  • Query Model: Highly denormalized, materialized views optimized for specific UI read operations. Often backed by NoSQL, Elasticsearch, or Redis.
  • Synchronization: The Command side emits events upon state changes. The Query side projects these events into its read-optimized data stores. This introduces an eventual consistency window.

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