August 31, 2019

This entry is part [part not set] of 5 in the series UDispatch

The next amazing layer, now that we’ll have plugin architectures worked out, is to use plugins as stand-ins — very lightweight simulators — of the upstream behavior. A "stand-in" is a plugin that pretends to be an upstream service expressly for the purpose of developing a particualr downstream or set of downstreams that operate against it. Now, the mind can’t help to go to the word "simulator", I even used it myself up above. But I’m going to use "stand-in" […]