ProPublica Illinois Uses GNU Make to Load 1.4GB of Data Every Day – ProPublica

I once replaced a Hadoop ETL process that took several hours with a GNU Make ETL process that took several tens of minutes and loaded well more than 1.4GB of data, at a company that shall not be named. Its Java developers working on Windows machines blinked uncomprehendingly at it and muttered, "This is not enterprise." I quit within the month.

GNU Make's documentation is actually excellent. It's dense, but that is only because there is a lot to cover.

Just a question:<p>Is i really a good idea to download voting data over a unencrypted ftp?