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How much searching did you need to do before you found a good codebase to work on? Was memcached the only one you used or did you have a larger set of questions
by db48x 5y ago
How much searching did you need to do before you found a good codebase to work on? Was memcached the only one you used or did you have a larger set of questions that you picked from?
- ankrgyl 5y agoI got super lucky and came up with the question an hour before I first administered the interview. Memcached was the first codebase I went for, because someone had asked me a question involving it a few months ago, and it was conceptually a "simpler" version of MemSQL. Later on, we tried to diversify the question to other codebases (because it leaked, although less publicly). I remember trying it out on Redis, which was too easy because the codebase is so nice. We never found a great alternative while I was there (through 2016). Although, the team may have found something since. At my current company, Impira, we have a similar question on a different codebase :)