Austen showed up at Logan’s office late on a windy Thursday afternoon. “Addison just sent me over here to ask you about some horror story?”
Logan stopped and looked up. “Is that a description of whatever crazy extreme sport you’re doing this weekend? What is it this time?”
“It’s late spring, so a bunch of us are going ice skating on the thawing lake. We’re wearing body suits, so it’s really a combination of skating and swimming. But that’s not what Addison meant at all. When I showed Addison my design for the Ticketing workflow, I was immediately instructed to come to you and tell you I’ve created a horror story.”
Logan laughed. “Oh, I see what’s going on—you stumbled into the Horror Story saga communication pattern. You designed a workflow with asynchronous communication, atomic transactionality, and choreography, right?”
“How did you know?”
“That’s the Horror Story saga pattern, or really, anti-pattern. There are eight generic saga patterns we start from, so it’s good to know what they are, because each has a different balance of trade-offs.”
