alt Hacker NewsSoft deletes are an example of where engineers unintentionally lead product instead of product leading engineering. Soft delete isn’t language used by users so it should not be used by engineers when making product facing decisions.
“Delete” “archive” “hide” are the type of actions a user typically wants, each with their own semantics specific to the product. A flag on the row, a separate table, deleting a row, these are all implementation options that should be led by the product.
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antonvs • today at 12:51 AM
It depends on the product. Google Cloud Storage has a soft delete feature in its product, for example: https://docs.cloud.google.com/storage/docs/soft-delete
Why would implementation details be led by product? “Undo” is an action that the user may want, which would be led by product. Not the implementation in the db.