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@Lensflare I think they haven't heard of "cloud computing". They have a fucking on-premises overgrown freezer as their "data processing centre".
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@Lensflare /s
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It's a good thing for teams who are stuck in their ways to get feedback. And suggestions for how to change.
Sometimes it's the first time in years a team has gotten a suggestion to change.
(And consider - the people who are running the service now might have inherited it, and had no incentive to force their current users to change their api calls, until someone demands a change) -
@Lensflare Inb4 "heretic! Burn him on the pyre with the rest of the SOAP fanatics!"
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@Wisecrack yes! 👹
when your code is a mess but everything work out in the end
When you keep getting +1s on a rant you posted a month ago.
Go big or go home.
"We use WSDL and SOAP to provide data APIs"
- Old-fashioned but ok, gimme the service def file
(The WSDL services definition file describes like 20 services)
- Cool, I see several services. In need those X data entities.
"Those will all be available through the Data service endpoint"
- What you mean "all entities in the same endpoint"? It is a WSDL, the whole point is having self-documented APIs for each entity format!
"No, you have a parameter to set the name of the data entity you want, and each entity will have its own format when the service return it"
- WTF you need the WSDL for if you will have a single service for everything?!?
"It is the way we have always done things"
Certain companies are some outdated-ass backwater tech wannabees.
Usually those that have dominated the market of an entire country since the fucking Perestroika.
The moment I turn on the data pipeline, those fuckers are gonna be overloaded into oblivion. I brought popcorn.
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data engineering
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