When Your Application Can’t Explain Its Own State, Part 2: Building State Your Application Can Explain
Evidence enters the system. The application decides what becomes authoritative for its own state.
Patrick McDonald
Building systems that can explain themselves.
Staff software engineer writing about distributed systems, payments infrastructure, AI reliability, and designing applications that remain explainable under failure.
New Jersey, USA
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When Your Application Can’t Explain Its Own State, Part 1: The Authority Gap
The system is up. The records look valid. Nobody can prove what actually happened. That is the authority gap.