For a company we planned to acquire and integrate, one of our devs was wondering why the search requests the frontend made to their API suspiciously looked like

For a company we planned to acquire and integrate, one of our devs was wondering why the search requests the frontend made to their API suspiciously looked like raw ElasticSearch queries. Two hours later that dev sent me a screenshot with our competitor’s production catalogue consisting of memes. I told him to delete them so we could sign the purchase agreement without further ado. To this day they don‘t know and I sometimes wonder how they ever got so far. And this, ladies and gentlemen, is why you leave backend query languages to backends and just use GraphQL...