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What is an entity?

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Audience asks whether an entity is an object with attributes or a process. Ladd: usually a data structure with domain-specific methods around it (e.g. the deposit method that increases the balance), but there is also a logical sense in which, zoomed out, an account microservice can itself be thought of as an account entity. In this talk he mostly means the code pattern.

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Primarily a data structure with domain-specific methods; logically, a whole microservice can also be thought of as an entity.
question What is an entity?
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Q&A after the talk.
question What is an entity?
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Asked to disambiguate 'entity' as used throughout the talk.

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