Soon after introducing microservices, we were overwhelmed by constant outages and endless alerts, leaving us no time to figure out what was going wrong. In this talk, I’ll share how we rediscovered the Saga pattern amidst that chaos and how it transformed our fragile system into a resilient one. By exploring the failure modes and incomplete implementations we encountered, you’ll gain a deeper understanding of the pattern. You’ll learn about common pitfalls and a blueprint for building resilience into your inter-service communications. Pay attention, and you’ll never have to wake up to the sound of PagerDuty in the middle of the night.