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See also "Eventual Business Consistency"[0] by Kent Beck. Really good read.

> Double-dated data—we tag each bit of business data with 2 dates:

> * The date on which the data changed out in the real world, the effective date.

> * The date on which the system found out about the change, the posting date.

> Using effective & posting dates together we can record all the strange twists & turns of feeding data into a system.

[0] https://tidyfirst.substack.com/p/eventual-business-consisten...



Thanks for posting this, I read tbis a while ago, but it is worth revisiting.




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