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by layer8 65 days ago
Sometimes the role of your system is to be the authoritative source of data that it has aggregated, validated, and canonicalized.
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This is great. Then I would consider the aggreated, validated, and canonicalized source as a Golden Source. Where I've seen issues is that someone starts to query from a nonauthoritative source because they know about it, instead of going upstream to a proper source.