What I Learned in February

2016 February 17

This month I learned:

• How to tune postgres (yay pgtune)
• How to use sqlalchemy
• That interviewing is hard, but it can be fun too.
• A little bit about rasterizing lines
• That I’m not “senior enough” as an engineer… which was helpful in showing me how I need to grow.
• How to make real southern gumbo.

2016 February 25

Spoke with an engineer at Planet Labs (phone interview) and he gave me a design question, “How would you design something like MixPanel so that you don’t lose writes?” I’ve never worked on a production system with that kind of volume of data, but it was interesting to learn how you could use logs to recover data in case of an outage. Definitely have a lot more to learn…