alt Hacker NewsSometimes the role of your system is to be the authoritative source of data that it has aggregated, validated, and canonicalized.
Sometimes the role of your system is to be the authoritative source of data that it has aggregated, validated, and canonicalized.
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.