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by Suppafly 601 days ago
>I'd love to hear what you saw that motivated this. Care to share?

Working adjacent to medicine,banking, supply chain, and some other fields, I'd say that most people don't realize that everything is just csv files and sftp servers underneath. You'd assume these fields would be using realtime web services to communicate with each other, but even the ones that seem roughly realtime are often using scheduled file transfers of batched data. A lot of the integration is essentially bat files and shell scripts converting between one type of csv to another. It's bandaids and bailing wire all the way down.