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Software Architecture PART 04

Data Ownership and Database per Service: Why Avoid a Shared Database?

A shared database creates coupling that appears in no contract; each service's data should be private to it, and others should reach it through API composition, a local copy replicated through events, or a CQRS read model. Enforcing the boundary with schema-level permissions in SQL Server, a version-checked copy driven by BookRenamed, the snapshot difference, reference data and CDC for reporting.

8 Nov 2026 11 min 2

Software Architecture PART 05

No Transactions Across Microservices: Embracing Eventual Consistency by Design

Distributed transactions (2PC) are not used across services; a rule that needs immediate consistency stays in one service, and a flow spanning several services is built with sagas and compensating actions, with events going through an outbox. The real error TransactionScope gives on Linux and macOS, a choreographed checkout saga, intermediate states in the domain, and eventual consistency shown to the user with 202 Accepted.

8 Nov 2026 13 min 3