> aka shipping using 3rd party api is a transient state of a complex process that can be ultimately recreated from the orders stored in the DB, but better not f

> aka shipping using 3rd party api is a transient state of a complex process that can be ultimately recreated from the orders stored in the DB, but better not for speed reason. Plus some 3rd party APIs are rather terrible and if you end up re-sending a request (because your server/container went down after the request got sent to the API, but before the response got back/was processed) then the 3rd party API could end up in an inconsistent state.