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Re:Google: 90% of our engineers use the software you wrote (... by toomuchtodo on Wednesday June 10, 2015 @05:36PM (#9695654)
Happened to me at Twilio.

The answer was transactions (database). You never forget that sort of mistake.

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Re:Google: 90% of our engineers use the software you wrote (... by 72deluxe on Thursday June 11, 2015 @04:54AM (#9698495)
...unless you forget to commit that mistake to memory and rollback instead...?
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Re:Google: 90% of our engineers use the software you wrote (... by toomuchtodo on Thursday June 11, 2015 @12:22PM (#9700597)
Too soon :) (all joking aside, this was ~5 years ago, very happy for Twilio and things worked out for me very well; no complaints).
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