The Distributed Transaction Nightmare: Why @Transactional Silently Failed Across Microservices (And the Outbox Pattern Fix)
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Everything looks flawless in development. You decorate your Spring Boot service method with @Transactional, run an integration test against a local container, simulate a downstream failure, and verify that the database rolls back cleanly. Then you deploy to production. At scale, when network socket…
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The Distributed Transaction Nightmare: Why @Transactional Silently Failed Across Microservices (And the Outbox Pattern Fix)