[mamcx]

> When writing an API, it’s easy to unknowingly introduce a dangerous, implicit assumption: that the database is the ultimate source of truth. If a record is in the database, an application often treats it as authoritative. I want to explain in this post why that might be a very bad idea.

This premise is weird at best.

"the database is the ultimate source of truth" is not a "dangerous, implicit assumption", is the best rule you can get (and the rest of the post say so: all useful data comes from it!)

Instead the rest of the article is interesting on how to choose what to use for the hash, but not follow with this first paragraph :shrug: