'Seven files that start with Santa' is actually about filenames. That's pretty confusing especially since users are primed with file contents from the previous exercises already.
And from pipers piping description I had no idea what was wanted of me.
I think that may be the point, the subtlety of "lines of pipers piping" got me for a second - as opposed to the 11 pipers piping files (which is what I thought it wanted).
This reminds of the time I was not able to get setproctitle to work in certain code base. Eventually I narrowed the issue to this line:
import numpy
setproctitle() worked before numpy import but not after because it couldn't find the memory address of **environ.
I'm hazy on the details but it led me to a somethingenv call (possibly getenv or setenv) in numpy initialization and it turned out that function changed the address of **environ and that was the reason for why setproctitle couldn't find it.
> To draw an analogy, it would be like building an EMR that doesn’t have the ability to output patient records in a manner that another EMR could ingest. In his industry this sort of portability of end user data for his employer’s customers is both customary and expected.
That's not necessarily contradicting the design to me. I don't know AWS but I assume you still can move data between tenants, only through some export/import system. And there may be a good a reason for it. Like you need an import/export system anyway because your tenants need it for data exchange with "tenants" that are not your customers. So you can still have both. Another reason may be a need for auditing the data movements between those tenants.
> Hmm. I wonder if there is some kind of query builder that can live server-side. That is, capture the flexibility of a query language when developing, and then consolidating that when going into production.
And from pipers piping description I had no idea what was wanted of me.