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

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Post by friendly_chap » Fri, Mar 31, 2023, 3:10 PM UTC

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

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Post by brokenpipes » Sat, Apr 01, 2023, 1:38 AM UTC

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

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

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Post by friendly_chap » Sat, Apr 01, 2023, 6:54 AM UTC

brokenpipes wrote: post #2

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

Hey!

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.

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

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Post by nickcodefresh » Sat, Apr 01, 2023, 12:01 PM UTC

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).