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Use your database to power state machines (blog.lawrencejones.dev)
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[–] lysdexic@programming.dev 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.