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That gives me flashbacks. I worked on a payment system that had to pull data from third-party service providers that only made it available in the form of downloadable spreadsheets from godawful slow and unreliable JavaScript-heavy web portals. Just getting to the point of downloading the spreadsheets was painful enough, and then the spreadsheets themselves were inconsistent and would sometimes flap back and forth between two different formats for a few weeks as the service provider repeatedly deployed and then rolled back new versions of their software.


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