[jonathanpglick]

This is where erlang/elixir really shines! Using actor processes (aka genservers) to model business workflows and logic helps to align the programmer's and stakeholder's shared understanding and language of a feature, which leads to the implementation and expectations about it to be much more "correct".

Too many of us jump straight to modeling the domain objects as database tables without formalizing the the data model of the actual business need. Explicit state changes and considering "time" are way more important than database layout at that point.

And please either use operation explicit types and/or finite state machines when modeling the main domain objects.

My last three jobs started with untangling a bunch of "status" fields into explicit and hierarchical structures so that the whole company could agree and define what each of them actually meant. Common language, yo! It's the secret sauce!

[typeofhuman]

> bunch of "status" fields into explicit and hierarchical structures

Could you elaborate some more?