On: How ProPublica Illinois Uses GNU Make to Load Data

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Not just "open source technology", battle-tested tried-and-true technologies. Articles like these should remind us that we don't need to keep rebuilding tools to solve the same set of problems -- sometimes, all it takes is some familiarity with what exists

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I honestly didn't know Make did all that. I thought it was just a build script thing for complex software. This was enlightening.