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		eyelidlessness on Jan 23, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why developers never use state machines (2011) > Most people attempt to achieve Idempotence whenever possible, and there are several reasons this is desirable in HA systems. Fundamentally, the REST paradigm broke peoples brains, and set many projects on a doomed trajectory into the sun. Respectfully… wha?

Joel_Mckay on Jan 23, 2023 [–]

If you have under 40k users, than you can get away with a lot of bad choices. =)

eyelidlessness on Jan 23, 2023 | [–]

Sure, I’m just trying to understand the thing you previously said.

Joel_Mckay on Jan 23, 2023 | | [–]

I would recommend David Schmitz's talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWgRw5jiYy0

While I don't agree with many of his points (riffs on Erlang/Elixir are silly), there is still some good hints in the talk.

Hope it helps =)

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