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by theqult 2305 days ago
30 years of undocumented legacy code, we had to reverse engineer the binary ouput to interact with it.

Also all cloud additional services run trougth a zip that it produces at the end of the day with a full snapshot of the restaurant that day. From 5 to 30 MB a zip, a day, for 500K restaurant. We were moving TERABYTES over SMB