Eli5 the concepts of ‘Upstream’ and ‘Downstream’ within the context of software development.
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When you are downstream you depend on things that are upstream.
If you paint a house you depend on who provides paint. They are upstream.
The home owner you are painting the house for is downstream from you.
They depend on you to finish painting so they can sell their house.
So indirectly the home owner depends on the paint provider through you.
This can be applied in many ways in software but the idea is generally the same.
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