Go Engineer Details Generic Bitemporal Core Using Type Parameters to Enforce Audit Rules

Software engineer Anton, who works primarily in PHP/Symfony and Go, has published a technical deep-dive on building a single generic core for managing bitemporal data in Go services. The system enforces six strict rules — including no destructive UPDATEs or physical DELETEs — ensuring every domain table tracks both valid time and system time on two separate axes. A single generic type, Revisioned[T], exposes six methods covering current state, point-in-time queries, corrections, and interval closing, with version columns controlled exclusively by the core. The design uses a Spec struct to separate identity, payload, and version column groups, preventing domain code from corrupting the system timeline. Anton notes that per-domain hand-written implementations routinely break these invariants in different ways, making a single shared core the only reliable solution.