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This brought back troubling memories of discovering that a non-trivial amount of the world's economic data seems to be shuttled around banks via batch-generated
by garethsprice 9y ago
This brought back troubling memories of discovering that a non-trivial amount of the world's economic data seems to be shuttled around banks via batch-generated CSV files, only accessible via nightly FTP drops.
- toomuchtodo 9y agoA lot of it has moved to SFTP/SCP the last few years.
- moomin 9y agoYes, but often you discover that the required semantics are those of a transactional queue.
- zer00eyz 9y agoMoving large amounts of data around, that you don't need real time. CSV is a grand solution, one that has a hell of a lot less over head than any other "api" that many HN readers would normally see.