Alibaba Cloud Developer

Mar 9, 2018 · Backend Development

Why Distributed Transactions Stall Microservices and How Alibaba’s GTS Solves It

The article examines the challenges of distributed transactions in microservice architectures, reviews traditional solutions such as XA, TCC, and message-based eventual consistency, and introduces Alibaba’s Global Transaction Service (GTS) as a high‑performance, low‑intrusion middleware with various deployment options and real‑world usage examples.