Post #4334244
2026-05-07 09:14 UTC
@soulcutter@ruby.social soft deletes (with eventual clean-up) are a good solution to eventual consistency issues, particularly in async, evented systems, which usually scale better than synchronous systems. There is no "tax" if your system is designed that way.
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@soulcutter@ruby.social 2026-05-07 18:41
@relistan@mstdn.social I've been thinking about event-based systems lately! I want to apply that pattern a lot more in my work. I think in many systems there's a projection or compacted record that is used primarily, and I'd suggest there is an event that would delete that projected data but leave the events intact. Is that sort of the shape of what you're thinking? There's a lot of "it depends", and I did hedge by saying "the vast majority of the time".