I didn't really mean to emphasize CRUD when I mentioned REST. Just that it is an example of a natural mapping for some domains. I'm not a fan of anything trying to solve distribute system problems with only middleware. The end-to-end mapping needs to traverse the messaging layer, but cannot really be made robust when the endpoint are naive to the distributed reality.
A similar analogy is how 2-phase commit protocols enact (virtual) escrow.
It doesn't matter CRUD, REST, 2PC, or middleware in general. From my PoV they're all technical solutions used to avoid deep modeling of the domain and its workflows, and instead trying to model the real world using generic primitives without understanding it first, or maybe with surface-level understanding only
Also, learning data engineering and BI helps one better model the real world than generic methods. It's somewhat similar to CQRS/ES, but with much more prior art
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I didn't really mean to emphasize CRUD when I mentioned REST. Just that it is an example of a natural mapping for some domains. I'm not a fan of anything trying to solve distribute system problems with only middleware. The end-to-end mapping needs to traverse the messaging layer, but cannot really be made robust when the endpoint are naive to the distributed reality.
A similar analogy is how 2-phase commit protocols enact (virtual) escrow.
It doesn't matter CRUD, REST, 2PC, or middleware in general. From my PoV they're all technical solutions used to avoid deep modeling of the domain and its workflows, and instead trying to model the real world using generic primitives without understanding it first, or maybe with surface-level understanding only
The dichotomy is generic vs custom/bespoke:
- generic (CRUD / REST / RDBMS+SQL+ACID Tx / Tx Scripts / 2PC / BPMN / Admin UIs) - also SmartUIs/Fat Clients (VB, Delphi, SPAs, etc.)
vs
- custom (DDD / CQRS/ES / Sagas / Process Managers / Durable Executions / TBUI)
Also, learning data engineering and BI helps one better model the real world than generic methods. It's somewhat similar to CQRS/ES, but with much more prior art