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CSV files are widely known to be used by the most frugal companies so of course it is.
by hotstickyballs 3mo ago
CSV files are widely known to be used by the most frugal companies so of course it is.
- fragmede 3mo agoHave you seen what RDS costs‽ AWS couldn't possibly afford that!
- berkes 3mo agoI've worked on a complex bookkeeping SAAS. Our "CVS" im- and export was the most used feature by far. Yet it was implemented on a thursday afternoon by a junior, using the first "library" that popped up in a google search. And over the years, leaked into every corner of the application. Unaffordable technical debt. I cemented this experience into memory and now, in every new gig where I have to do "CSV", I isolate it, abstract it, overengineer it. Hell, last year I even built and launched a dedicated e2e tested csv-export service instead of just `from csv import writer` and call it a day. Because CSV is the "interface" that will bring your system down if not properly designed.