We use Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 as our “System of Record (SOR)” and single source of truth for our people (HR) data. One of the things we keep there is a photo of each person. These days, there are several places that the photo ideally needs to be, in order to provide a consistent user experience across the variety of applications we use on a daily basis, ranging from Business Messaging to internally developed applications and dashboards using a static load balancer.
Ultimately we developed a command line application using Cobra that runs on a scheduled basis to keep photos across all the platforms up to date. This post is about the way Dynamics stores the photos and how we overcame that using Go.
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