Platform Nuts & Bolts : Extendable Data Models

Strategies for building flexible data models in Platform systems

The core of building Platforms rests in versatile entity management. Entities represent the nouns or the “truths” of our world. What those entities do or how they behave can vary a lot from situation to situation, but the key thing to identify is that very often, the same entity can feature in all of these scenarios. When we look at our systems from a business and real-world perspective, it is clear that we are working with a set of things that…