[hyperman1]

I got one for you. We have to upload json files containing for a bunch of articles some encoded rules, and the legal text in the law why the encoded rules are what they are.

The law part was supposed to be a few lines of text. Except when they dont know which article to give. In that case they provide the full law text, including scanned pdfs, base64 encoded. All 2GB of it. Basically you have something with the meaning null, encoded in a huge string.

Now the creation of this file was given to a third party, who don't bother with finding out the relevant law, and paste the 2GB blob into every article they modify, just to be sure. At this point we have 500 000 articles in that file. We get a new one every month.

Not fun at all. But it is modern, at least, in the past it was a cobol flat file.

[junke]

This looks like TheDailyWTF.com, but thanks.