Handling orders
As mentioned earlier, receiving an order is not just a matter of writing a row in a database. In real-world scenarios, an incoming e-commerce order triggers several business procedures. Some of them are as follows:
- Notifying the warehouse set for the delivery
- Notifying the sales agent to perform appropriate actions on the CRM
- Notifying payment information to the financial department
We can achieve these with two opposite approaches:
- Push approach: The application receiving an order "pushes" the notification to the involved systems
- Pull approach: The involved systems periodically checks for changes into a specific place in order to start business rules
Both approaches have advantages/disadvantages. They are explained in the following table:
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