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TODO: write a blog post ...
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# Inspiration
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The basic concept for this SDK comes from years of web development. A number of
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patterns have arisen in that realm of software which enable people to build remote
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servers with APIs remarkably quickly and with high stability. The
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[ABCI](https://github.com/tendermint/abci) application interface is similar to
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a web API (`DeliverTx` is like POST and `Query` is like GET while `SetOption` is like
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the admin playing with the config file). Here are some patterns that might be
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useful:
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* MVC - separate data model (storage) from business logic (controllers)
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* Routers - easily direct each request to the appropriate controller
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* Middleware - a series of wrappers that provide global functionality (like
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authentication) to all controllers
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* Modules (gems, package, etc) - developers can write a self-contained package
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with a given set of functionality, which can be imported and reused in other
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apps
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Also at play is the concept of different tables/schemas in databases, thus you can
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keep the different modules safely separated and avoid any accidental (or malicious)
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overwriting of data.
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Not all of these can be compare one-to-one in the blockchain world, but they do
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provide inspiration for building orthogonal pieces that can easily be combined
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into various applications.
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