[closeparen]

>somehow managed to independently come to the decision that the best way to make inventory data available was to push large CSV files to an FTP server you setup.

Somehow this is indeed a standard for data transfers between non-tech companies. (The ones that are sophisticated enough not to use fax or email attachments).

[NegativeLatency]

I worked on a team at Microsoft that did the CSV over FTP thing in 2013. So some tech companies do it as well. ;)

[yesiamyourdad]

My employer has a scheduled job that downloads a CSV over FTP thing at 6PM everyday. This is in adtech, with a company that's about 5 years old.