Design Patterns · Senior · Question 72 of 75

How does saga orchestration differ from choreography?

✓Correct answer: Orchestration has a central coordinator telling services what to do; choreography lets services react to each other's events
2They're the same
3Choreography requires a single database

Explanation

Orchestration is easier to follow and change; choreography reduces coupling to a coordinator but spreads the flow across services.

Further reading

microservices.io: Saga ↗

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