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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 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.