Show HN: Actio, a (young) Node.js framework that makes microservices invisible

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One of the design patterns of microservices is not to share databases, so distributed transactions shouldn't be required. Of course, this presents it's own problems (see Microservices Patterns by Chris Richardson for solutions to this).

Does Actio handle distributed database transactions? That seems like a necessary feature for making microservices effortless.

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Good question! If you mean transactions across services then no, I do not plan to. I think often if you need distributed db transactions then you built a distributed monolith.

I've just woken up but I will spend some time thinking about this and writing some proposals about this as it is a huge topic.

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