[acemarke]

As I describe in that "Tao of Redux Part 2" post, there's no _requirement_ that you dispatch START/SUCCESS/FAILURE actions as part of your async requests. You'd need SUCCESS at a minimum or an equivalent to handle the actual updates from the request, but the START/FAILURE actions are only needed if you want want to do things like showing spinners or have some kind of undo/redo behavior. It's a useful convention and a common pattern, but definitely not a requirement.