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		knackers on Sept 21, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Your backend should probably be a state machine I found the contrast with workflow systems such as Cadence/Temporal really interesting. You can tell the author has felt the pain of managing real time distributed state machines.

abrgr on Sept 21, 2023 [–]

Thank you! These workflow systems were such an amazing advance over what came before but we can do even better.

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