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The data pipeline behind the warehouse system: spreadsheet exports, safe imports, gRPC streaming, typed validation errors, staging tables, and an atomic swap against the ERP database.
The route optimizer benchmark track: JPS was a reasonable pathfinding choice, but precomputed Dijkstra tables, SlotId compression, and an exact ILP referee fit the warehouse better.
How a barcode scan became a warehouse route: order lookup, slot choice, shelf ergonomics, and the graph hidden under a pick list.
From bars and spaces to keystrokes in your input field. How UPC-A barcodes encode data, how scanners decode them, and why your barcode reader acts like a keyboard.