Service Layer Pattern

The service layer gathers all the orchestration functionality such as fetching stuff out of our repository, validating our input against database state, handling errors, and commiting in the happy path. Most of these things don't have anything to do with the view layer (an API or a command line tool), so they're not really things that need to be tested by end-to-end tests.

Unconnected thoughts⚑

By combining the service layer with our repository abstraction over the database, we're able to write fast test, not just of our domain model but of the entire workflow for a use case.

References⚑

• The service layer pattern chapter of the Architecture Patterns with Python book by Harry J.W. Percival and Bob Gregory.