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#48 Composability in Distributed Systems - Because Math! With Heather Miller

Happy Path Programming

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The Future of Functional Programming

The idea is basically like, um, you know, we look at services as individual things that are like black boxes and we kind of know what their interfaces are. Um, and if you just look at the possible responses that you could get from either of these, it's a finite space of possible responses. And so then you'd end up with a lot fewer potential messages that you might be receiving and handling. The distinction between pure functions and effectful functions is very important in CI.

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