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It is a shame how silo-ed each K-12 system is, in regards to data/integration. It is also a shame as to what some/most vendors call an API (sorry, a nightly CSV
by hashtree 13y ago
It is a shame how silo-ed each K-12 system is, in regards to data/integration. It is also a shame as to what some/most vendors call an API (sorry, a nightly CSV is NOT an API). Only in education do you see such poor APIs and programming on a whole making tens/hundreds of millions of dollars. I've seen source code from several major players that would cause shivers in both the lack of quality and holes in security.
These are HUGE hurdles for districts. They often realize it too late and end up getting taken to the cleaners by some freelancer or company who milk the hours trying to do integrations/data-warehosues (I've seen 60k/1yr jobs that were solved with 10k/2wk rewrites).
Congratulations on the funding, I am excited to see any company that can help break down those barriers. Sorry that I sometimes take business away from you as a freelancer doing integrations sometimes (you do get mentioned from time-to-time) ;)
- 2arrs2ells 13y agoThanks for the support! No need to apologize for your custom integration work. As a company building integrations in an automated & scalable way, we can't cover all possible use cases & combinations. I'm thrilled to see devs doing great work at a reasonable rate (& let's talk - maybe we can send some referrals your way!).