> The current thoughts on microservices is that you should really re-evaluate how critical strong transnational guarantees really are to your application.

Are there some examples of what else one can do?

I'm generally fine with service 2 eventually being called if service 1 is, but then I need that to happen.

e.g. I have a payment service and an internal "subscriptions service". If user requests a refund, I have to both issue refund to payment service and cancel internal subscription