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> But if you're a bank, or a big on-line retailer, or a company that sells enterprise software - a business where you or your customers push billions of dollars
by aianus 10y ago
> But if you're a bank, or a big on-line retailer, or a company that sells enterprise software - a business where you or your customers push billions of dollars of business through a software system - you definitely do care.
Funny, those companies have the least reliable, performant, and maintainable code.
- grogenaut 10y agocitation needed
- im_down_w_otp 10y agoVisa
- grogenaut 10y agoOkay where's your citation of a startup that is all about engineering excellence and not about shipping product?
- im_down_w_otp 10y agoCruise
- flukus 10y agoExperience. The worst horrors I've seen have been in the finance sector. I'm currently working on one where the developers don't know transactions exist. And millions of dollars of transactions daily are coordinated by users emailing inline csv files.
- aianus 10y agoI'll add an experience with a bank that could only accept ACH batches via ActiveX control in Internet Explorer. Oh, and a brokerage that actively prevented password managers from pasting passwords into the login form.
- toadi 10y agoProbably because they outsource everything to Indian company full of fresh from school developers.
- skafjvhs 10y agoThey outsource to IBM, IBM outsources to India.