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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, and 0 nines uptime with a super traditional setup.

Point being, it's not the tools the causes the probem.

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Read 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.

Both work (:

But the point was it was in a comparble situations without the microservices / k8s / whatever pet tech you want to hate on.

I 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...

Just curious, are you still looking for developers? Asking as someone who is a developer that works with POS systems.

I no longer work in that industry.

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