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by Canada 1406 days ago
> It adds a tremendous amount of complexity to all of your services

But it makes my life so much easier as a user of your service. I admit that it's not worth it for every type of service, but for financial ones it's 100% worth it. I'm trying to keep my ledger balances in sync with yours. I hate having to make a manual adjustment because something got missed.

Having my system heal itself even in the case when we really fucked up, pushed that bad update where we crashed and didn't persist what you said, or cloudflare fucked us and blocked you, or something... there's always something... I really really appreciate that.

I mean, if you don't because it's too complex for you.. okay, I'll have have to add the complexity on my side to compensate. I'm really thankful when I don't have to, and when I'm the event/truth source for others I try my best to do that courtesy for the event consumers.