Worked on a team doing nationwide MLS feeds via a variety of sources eg IDX, VOW, etc. Feels like some sort of arcane art after a certain point trying to get everything to play nicely on a unified interface.
Same. It's a nightmare. We used Trestle, which was decent but still felt like an API from 2005.
> It's so archaic. ...Talk about technical debt.
you guys need to get in to medical/prescription claims billing, payments, and reconciliation. That's the real fun stuff right there.
My girlfriend runs a medical provider company that bills through most major health insurance companies. One of these companies (a large, well-known insurer) will only accept payment requests by fax, M-F, 8am to 5pm. Yes, I'm serious. They still have a fax machine, and it gets unplugged everyday at 5pm.
different US*MLS use different record formats -- there were several Federal level lawsuits on that topic too IIR