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Comment by toomuchtodo

11 years ago

Happened to me at Twilio.

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

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72deluxe  11 years ago

...unless you forget to commit that mistake to memory and rollback instead...?

  • toomuchtodo  11 years ago

    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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