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Handling partial failures in distributed transactions

We're seeing edge cases where side-effects commit but the coordinator fails. How do you handle sagas that get stuck in 'pending' state indefinitely without manual intervention?

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Implement a compensating transaction for each step with an exponential backoff retry loop. If retries are exhausted, alert operations and store the failure in a dead-letter queue for manual analysis.

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