Transactions

The @Transactional annotation is one of the most useful features in Spring Boot applications.

Transaction handling is straightforward in monolithic applications.
A single database, a single transaction boundary, and frameworks like Spring make it almost effortless with the @Transactional annotation.

In the previous article, we explored why transaction management becomes problematic in microservices — especially when services are poorly split and rely on synchronous REST calls.

Now let’s look at how transactions can be handled correctly in a Spring Boot-based microservice architecture.