You’re thinking “bid” is in reference to Snowflake bidding for progressive as a client?
I’d say thats not likely, I work in fintech and the first thing this filename indicates to me is a CSV feed of market data for bid prices (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bid_price)
This is a common type of dataset a firm would dump into a datalake to use as reference data lookups against other more sensitive data (for pricing trades, etc.)
Oh man, then you really don’t want to know about a product I once created.
Reader could have an optional Flash plugin, and better yet, you could configure the PDF interactive plugin to dynamically download the swf file to run.
I built an entire Flex based rich UI that was dynamically loaded by the 1kb PDF you’d receive in email, the Flex app retrieved and posted data via HTTP APIs.
Because reasons.
That product was live for years. I think we shut it down as recently as 2 years ago.
To be 100% clear, wasn’t my idea.
But it was my mistake to joke about the absurd possibility to build such a thing in front of some biz folks.