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by akdor1154 595 days ago
Agree.. I can tell you at least one Melbourne-based Flybuys retailer calculates your points with an unholy daily-scheduled stored procedure in Snowflake SQL, because.. big business dysfunction reasons lead to the data team being assigned to do it, and the data team didn't actually have any software engineer roles in it.

At least it has tests.

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Do you mean the points earned in-store that are then sent to Flybuys to add to your total? Or, god forbid, do they do their own total?
The former, in-store and online (which is beginning to touch on those business dysfunction reasons).