Designing SaaS Commerce with State Machines [Part 11]
What You Will Learn Why “string status” breaks down in SaaS commerce Implementation patterns for embedding state machines into Go domain models Design techniques for coordinating multiple state machines Handling edge cases: partial payments, expiration, and optimistic locking The Status Column from Hell When building web applications, you will almost certainly encounter “status” columns. Order status, invoice status, user account status. What starts as a simple active / inactive boolean grows into pending, processing, completed, cancelled, refunded… as the service evolves. ...