Rollback Chains: When Payment Fails, What Actually Happens

Rollback Chains: When Payment Fails, What Actually Happens In the previous post, I showed the orchestrator's state transition table. It knows which topic to publish on failure. But what happens on the receiving end? What does "rollback" actually look like in code? This post walks through three real failure scenarios in my saga system. Each one triggers a different rollback chain, and each service handles compensation differently. How Compensation Works Every service implements two operations: th