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Thinking in Actors – Challenging your software modelling to be simpler


Challenging your software modelling techniques to be simpler

Instead of rich, meaningful and well modelled objects, we see properties that are modified by business logic scattered in layers such as the controller or service. RESTful API patterns, whilst commonly used and beneficial in many scenarios, have inadvertently reinforced the notion of thinking in terms of entities instead of business operations. Ensuring state consistency during node crashes, network partitioning, retries and deployments requires additional design.

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