Introduction to StackSaga

Overview

StackSaga is a comprehensive Saga ecosystem for building resilient, distributed transactions in microservice-based architectures.

At its core, StackSaga provides Saga Orchestrator Engines — components that coordinate multistep workflows across services by executing local transactions and their compensating actions. But StackSaga goes far beyond just orchestration — it delivers an entire platform for designing, running, and observing long-running business processes.

What is StackSaga?

StackSaga is an ecosystem rather than a single library. It provides everything needed to implement, observe, and maintain Saga-based distributed transactions in the real world.

  1. Saga Orchestrator Engines
    Multiple orchestration engines for synchronous (request/response) and asynchronous (event-driven) communication styles.

  2. Database Support for Event Sourcing
    StackSaga brings built-in event-sourcing capabilities and provides database support dependencies, enabling you to use your existing primary database as the event store — no need to set up a separate storage system.

  3. Environment & Integration Support
    Modules for integrating with critical infrastructure such as Eureka (service discovery), Kubernetes (K8s), and other environment-specific tools to make StackSaga cloud-native ready.

  4. Stacksaga Agents
    Dedicated retry agents for asynchronous transaction retry scheduling.

  5. Transaction Tracing Dashboard
    A visual dashboard for developers and operators to trace every transaction step, see event histories, and perform manual interventions (like retry or cancel).

Why StackSaga?

Modern microservices architectures demand:

  • Reliable coordination between services for long-running processes

  • Transparent error handling & compensation mechanisms

  • Traceability for debugging and compliance audits

  • Seamless integration with cloud environments (Eureka, K8s, etc.)

StackSaga addresses all of these with a single cohesive ecosystem, removing the friction of piecing together multiple frameworks or ad-hoc solutions.

How StackSaga Benefits Developers & Teams

  • 🚀 Unified Ecosystem – One solution covering orchestration, event-sourcing, and monitoring.

  • 🛡 Resilient Transactions – Built-in retries and compensations ensure workflows don’t break.

  • 📊 Full Observability – Trace every step with the StackSaga Dashboard.

  • ⚙️ Simplified Infrastructure – Use existing databases for event storage; integrate easily with K8s and service registries.