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Agreed, meanwhile large banks do things that are technically incredible but get seen as boring.

• stevenhuang 6y ago
  Such as?
  • deleted 6y ago
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  • segmondy 6y ago
    moving billions of dollars daily with csv, tsv fixed-width files and sftp. /s
    • Guest42 6y ago
      Petabytes upon petabytes, and it has to be correct, really well archived, and set up for reporting, stats, and ad hoc
• dreamcompiler 6y ago
  Exactly my point. I'd venture to guess that Marriott (another hotel company that actually owns their properties and thus arguably has more at stake) has a tech stack vastly more complicated than Airbnb's, and yet Marriott would never announce they're building a "tech hub" in any city.
  • bpicolo 6y ago
    I think you are probably overestimating how enterprise does tech. Subcontracting, consultancies are the name of the game
    • Guest42 6y ago
      For me at least, I found banking to be incredible, teams of DBAs managing very expensive database servers to perfection and high scale web apps that almost always work correctly