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I took over tech for a POS company some years ago. They were a .net shop with about 80 developers, less than 200 concurrent connections, 6 figures spend cloud,
by ownagefool 5mo ago
I took over tech for a POS company some years ago. They were a .net shop with about 80 developers, less than 200 concurrent connections, 6 figures spend cloud, and 0 nines uptime with a super traditional setup.
Point being, it's not the tools the causes the probem.
- robotnikman 5mo agoJust curious, are you still looking for developers? Asking as someone who is a developer that works with POS systems.
- ownagefool 5mo agoI no longer work in that industry.
- blobbers 5mo agoRead this as a Piece of sh... company. Then I saw response of someone saying they're a POS developer and was like oh I think he means point of sale. Or that guy is just a really bad programmer.
- ownagefool 5mo agoBoth work (: But the point was it was in a comparble situations without the microservices / k8s / whatever pet tech you want to hate on.
- icedchai 5mo agoI worked at a company that developed a niche POS as part of a larger system. It was, by far, the worst part of the code base. Just imagine a bunch of late 90's era Java 1.2 code, complete with a Swing UI, tons of concurrency issues, singleton objects and synchronized blocks all over the place, custom binary protocols...