I got told the other day that an ecommerce to ERP integration I built 8 years ago at a company I don't work for anymore, is still running without so much as a reboot. Apparently it is on it's third different website with no changes.
Linux, Bash, Python FTW. Everything was designed to be as simple as humanly possible. I mostly built it in my spare time too.
I once showed it to a real developer and he was horrified that some long messages that had to be sent were hardcoded into a file and concatenated to the one bit that changes...it was my prototype that worked so well I never changed it.
It only ran every 15 minutes, since all the systems that depended on the order ran less frequently than that. Everything was handled sequentially, and quite deliberately so.
It actually had a lot of functionality it gained over a couple of months, it had to print some stuff, detect fraud, fix addresses etc.
My favourite bit is that several companies had offered to build it for £mega and decided it couldn't be done! I wish I could describe it in full...
Linux, Bash, Python FTW. Everything was designed to be as simple as humanly possible. I mostly built it in my spare time too.
I once showed it to a real developer and he was horrified that some long messages that had to be sent were hardcoded into a file and concatenated to the one bit that changes...it was my prototype that worked so well I never changed it.
It only ran every 15 minutes, since all the systems that depended on the order ran less frequently than that. Everything was handled sequentially, and quite deliberately so.
It actually had a lot of functionality it gained over a couple of months, it had to print some stuff, detect fraud, fix addresses etc.
My favourite bit is that several companies had offered to build it for £mega and decided it couldn't be done! I wish I could describe it in full...