a_liang

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   by a_liang 10y ago

   One thing to consider was that we had to build this in about 5-6 months from the ground up, and match it to our existing financial system. Most of the work was to derive the financial meaning from a system not designed to provide it. The
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   by a_liang 10y ago

   Airbnb's data models weren't initially designed to be financially reported on, and by the time we needed better financial reporting, it was too late to change those models. 90% of the work was about rethinking the way to think ab
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   by a_liang 10y ago

   It's definitely something to consider, depends on our project roadmap.
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   by a_liang 10y ago

   Hi, I'm the author. Yeah, you have a good point. Imperative programming was just the way that we were using SQL to build that system.