postgresql
Some tasks I’ve worked on
Posted on February 20, 2021
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Intro When I’m interviewing for contracts or for jobs, many times I get asked what are the hardest problems I’ve had to deal with. I’ll write below some of these problems as I remember them now. Double-counting Some years ago, I was working as a consultant in the analytics team of a top-10 Alexa website with hundreds of millions of views every month. I was tasked with finding a bug in the code that was counting page views.