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Where Is My Saga? Observability Without Orchestration

Choreography-based sagas favor autonomy and loose coupling, but they raise a hard question: where are we right now?

Without a central orchestrator, teams struggle to understand progress, detect failure, and report meaningful status across distributed services.

This talk explores practical techniques for observing and reporting on choreographed sagas without reintroducing orchestration. We’ll look at domain-level signals, event-driven projections, and observability tooling—clarifying what each approach can and cannot tell us. The goal is not to prescribe a single solution, but to provide a mental model for choosing the right level of visibility while preserving the benefits of choreography.

  • Saga Patterns
  • Choreography vs Orchestration
  • Monitoring and Observing Choreography
  • Distributed Tracing
  • Creating Dashboards

Daniel Hinojosa

About Daniel Hinojosa

Daniel is a programmer, consultant, instructor, speaker, and recent author. With over 20 years of experience, he does work for private, educational, and government institutions. He is also currently a speaker for No Fluff Just Stuff tour. Daniel loves JVM languages like Java, Groovy, and Scala; but also dabbles with non JVM languages like Haskell, Ruby, Python, LISP, C, C++. He is an avid Pomodoro Technique Practitioner and makes every attempt to learn a new programming language every year. For downtime, he enjoys reading, swimming, Legos, football, and barbecuing.

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