{"id":9782,"date":"2024-06-07T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-07T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/?p=9782"},"modified":"2024-06-07T12:22:20","modified_gmt":"2024-06-07T18:22:20","slug":"weekend-wisdom-different-technologies-behave-differently-duh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/07\/weekend-wisdom-different-technologies-behave-differently-duh\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Wisdom: Different Technologies Behave Differently, Duh"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Very few companies have a monolithic technology stack. That means you&#8217;ll often find different behavior with:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Mobile apps versus a website<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Older terminal hardware versus newer hardware<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Android apps versus iOS apps<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Version 1.0 versus version 1.1<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Ok cool. How about a few specific examples?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>FlyingBlue will show different pricing and availability on AirFrance&#8217;s site than KLM&#8217;s<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Turkish Airlines fails to ticket some itineraries on desktop, but they&#8217;re easily bookable in the app<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Older Walmart terminals behave differently than newer terminals<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Some Kroger registers auto-drain cards, others won&#8217;t<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Old school bill payment platforms charge different fees based on what you use to start a payment<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Ok, cool again. Now why should you care?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Different technologies get different results, which leads to conflicting data points. Not all conflicts are easily explained by different technology stacks, but a surprising number are<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Fees, funding methods, and functionality often differ. Can&#8217;t get that payment to go through on the desktop? Maybe hit up the mobile app. Mobile app doesn&#8217;t work? How about the prior version?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Good luck, and have a nice weekend!<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-editorskit-rounded\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"464\" src=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/image-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9784\" style=\"width:420px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/image-1.png 640w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/image-1-300x218.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\" style=\"font-size:14px\">Even shoes have different technology stacks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Very few companies have a monolithic technology stack. That means you&#8217;ll often find different behavior with: Ok cool. How about a few specific examples? Ok,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_editorskit_title_hidden":false,"_editorskit_reading_time":0,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","footnotes":""},"categories":[12,25,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ms-hints","category-travel-hacking","category-wisdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9782"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9788,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9782\/revisions\/9788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}