Cloud Design Patterns: Compensating Transaction

• Undo the work performed by a series of steps, which together define an eventually consistent operation, if one or more of the operations fails.
• Operations that follow the eventual consistency model are commonly found in cloud-hosted applications that implement complex business processes and workflows.

When to use

• Use this pattern only for operations that must be undone if they fail. If possible, design solutions to avoid the complexity of requiring compensating transactions.

Reference

• Documentation: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/architecture/patterns/compensating-transaction