US Patent 11916996 Transactional readiness probe

A method, system, and computer program product are configured to: initiate a transaction in response to receiving a readiness probe request from a requesting system; set a probe flag for the transaction to a first state; send the transaction to a user application for processing; based on the probe flag being set to the first state, keep updates to recoverable resources in-flight while the user application is processing the transaction; based on the probe flag being set to the first state, roll back the updates to the recoverable resources in response to the user application ending processing the transaction; and send a readiness probe response to the requesting system based on how the user application ended processing the transaction.