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> No Abstractions here really means "just use terms from the underlying system"

Which sounds a bit like Domain Driven Design, although the "underlying system" in this case may be a bit too implementation-centered to be considered a real business domain.

To expand on that a bit: In DDD you generally defer to the names and conceptual-models the business-domain has already created. Trying to introduce your own "improved" [0] model or terms creates friction/miscommunications, adds opportunities for integration bugs, and ignores decades or even centuries of battle-tested specialized knowledge.

[0] https://xkcd.com/793/



> the "underlying system" in this case may be a bit too implementation-centered to be considered a real business domain.

I tend to agree with this. The domain concepts would be things like charge-backs and the reasons for them. The details of the codes and categories are implementation-specific. Unless, as Increase seems to be implying, their domain is the payment networks and fintech and their customers care about them the same way a kernel programmer would care about the details of memory allocators or schedulers, while most application programmers just want them to exist and work in a consistent way.




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