If you build a state machine on top of a relational database you can abstract concurrency problems away from your business logic and allow developers to write safe-by-default code without dealing with concurrency concerns. This post explains how to build a library that offers those protections, and how they work under-the-hood.
  • @lysdexicEnglish
    1•9 months 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.