WonderTravel: when two-phase commit met Black Friday
How WonderTravel's one-click flight, hotel and car booking, built on two-phase commit, locked thousands of bookings when its coordinator crashed and split a booking in a network partition, and how a saga of local commits, compensating actions and idempotent retries replaced it.
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CASE-001 · The Great Travel Booking Disaster: How 2PC Nearly Killed Our Business and Saga Pattern Saved It
Book everything. In one click. Atomically.
Flight, hotel, car: all or nothing
Meet Alex Chen, CTO of WonderTravel, an online travel platform with a big promise: seamless one-click holidays.
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