• Deebster@lemmyrs.org
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    1 year ago

    It's long running, so you want a database so you can store your state. If you're storing state, locking it into a state machine makes sense.

    I do agree with some of the commenters that making it closer to an event source design would make more sense still.

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      1 year ago

      It’s long running, so you want a database so you can store your state. If you’re storing state, locking it into a state machine makes sense.

      That's besides the point. Of course that the most fitting way to represent a state machine is with a state machine. The point is that implementing the transition table in a database table creates many problems while apparently solving none.