Description: The Unit of Work is a design pattern used in software development to manage business transactions efficiently. This pattern allows maintaining a list of objects affected by a transaction, facilitating the coordination of operations in a database context. The Unit of Work acts as an intermediary between the application and the database, ensuring that all operations performed on the objects are executed consistently and atomically. This means that if an operation fails, all actions taken up to that point can be rolled back, ensuring data integrity. This pattern is particularly useful in applications that require complex data handling, as it allows grouping multiple operations into a single transaction, thus optimizing performance and resource management. Additionally, the Unit of Work can help reduce the number of database calls, as it allows multiple changes to be made in memory before persisting them, resulting in greater efficiency in data access. In the context of object-relational mapping frameworks, this pattern can be commonly implemented to manage the lifecycle of entities effectively.
