What is your experience with implementing the Saga pattern in distributed transactions?

The Saga pattern is used for managing distributed transactions by breaking them into a series of local transactions with compensations in case of failure. In my implementation experience, I used an orchestration approach where a central service controls the sequence of steps and calls compensating operations if a step fails.

For example, in order processing, Saga might include steps: reserve product, deduct funds, create order. If deducting funds fails, a compensating transaction is triggered to cancel the reservation.

This approach ensures data consistency in distributed systems without using global transactions.