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

Happy Path Programming

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The Importance of Reflection in the Serialization Library

The first serialization library was based on a reflection API that exposed all the compiler internals. When bugs were fixed, it would cause everything else to break and then ultimately be the serialization library's fault. This is part of the reason why so many so many serialization libraries popped up after. And if you notice, like that has been removed. That's no longer. I mean, it's all three exists, right? But there are a lot of libraries that, you know, and this is, I don't know if you remember macro paradise and all that. Yeah.

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