Fescar: A Distributed Transaction Solution Open Sourced by Alibaba
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To support microservice-based development, Alibaba has now launched Fescar, an open source version of its Global Transaction Service solution to the problem of distributed transactions.This article is part of the Alibaba Open Source series.In online systems, #microservices have gained recent support from developers as a means of reducing difficulties, enhancing scalability, and facilitating agile development by splitting complex applications into loosely coupled services. However, implementing a seemingly simple function in a micro-serviced system may require calling multiple services and operating multiple databases, introducing a formidable distributed transaction problem for service calls.Currently, distributed transactions are the greatest obstacle to realizing microservices, and (...)
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