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3. Lifecycles

Thomas Nelson1  
(1)
Louisville, KY, USA
 

In this chapter, we will cover the lifecycle of grains, a silo, transaction paths, and clusters. We discussed the grain lifecycle in Chapter 1, Figure 1-2, as a foundational pillar. The grain lifecycle was designed to reduce low-level work for the developer. The silo was constructed to host the grains and provide the runtime. Each transaction has a cycle, which is dependent on the work required. Silos also have a process that allows them to be added to and removed from clusters.

Grain Lifecycle

Automatically managing the lifecycle ...

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