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Want to learn how you can man­age trans­ac­tions across in­de­pen­dent REST ser­vices with­out be­ing tied into a spe­cif­ic tech­nol­o­gy ven­dor?

A com­mon and per­ceived al­ter­na­tive to JTA/XA trans­ac­tions in mes­sag­ing is the so-called Idem­po­tent Con­sumer or Idem­po­tent Re­ceiv­er pat­tern.

This tech tip takes a clos­er look at what 're­li­able' mes­sag­ing means and how to achieve it. As we will see, it all de­pends on how you con­fig­ure and use your JMS.

This tech tip ex­plores some pat­terns for dis­trib­uted trans­ac­tions.

Trans­ac­tions with­out app serv­er - with pow­er fea­tures and sup­port!

How Open Collaboration Made Atomikos Even More Flexible
In modern Java architectures, flexibility isn’t a luxury — it’s a requirement.

18 May 2026 | Guy Pardon | Success stories, Tech tips

In mod­ern Java ar­chi­tec­tures, flex­i­bil­i­ty isn’t a lux­u­ry — it’s a re­quire­ment.

The "Complexity Tax": Why Manual Data Integrity is Costing You More Than You Think
Why your microservices are still losing data (and how to fix it)

27 January 2026 | Guy Pardon | Tech tips, Vision | , ,

Stop gam­bling with your data in­tegri­ty.

From de­bunk­ing the "XA is slow" myth to solv­ing cloud-na­tive re­cov­ery with LogCloud, we are show­ing you how to re­claim your de­vel­op­er pro­duc­tiv­i­ty and bring 100% atom­ic­i­ty to your mi­croser­vices.

Saga vs Transactional Call: Which One Should You Really Use?
If you are building microservices, you have probably heard of the Saga pattern

16 September 2025 | Guy Pardon | Tech tips, Vision | ,

If you are build­ing mi­croser­vices, you have prob­a­bly heard of the Saga pat­tern. Maybe you are even us­ing it. After all, it is the de­fault an­swer you will find on Stack Over­flow and in most con­fer­ence talks when peo­ple ask: How do I man­age dis­trib­uted trans­ac­tions?

Syn­chro­nous mi­croser­vices look great on pa­per.

They are easy to read, easy to de­bug, and they map per­fect­ly to how we think: “I send a re­quest, I get a re­ply.” No sur­pris­es, right?

Ex­cept when things go wrong. Which in dis­trib­uted sys­tems is most of the time.

Cybercrime and enterprise software
Supply chain attacks via public repositories

16 November 2022 | Guy Pardon | Review, Tech tips, Vision |

The bad guys are try­ing to get into your projects. What can you do to avoid pulling in bad code?

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