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abirchyesterday at 5:57 PM1 replyview on HN

I'm a fan of the sushi principle: raw data is better than cooked data.

Each process should take data from a golden source and not a pre-aggregated or overly normalized non-authorative source.


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layer8yesterday at 6:14 PM

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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