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Worst place you've seen money amounts stored?
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Worst place you've seen money amounts stored?

Arjun Mehta@arjunmehta

October 13, 2026 · 1 min read

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#fintech#backend

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Arjun Mehta

Backend engineer at a lending startup in Bengaluru. Payments, ledgers, reconciliation, and the occasional 3am settlement file that does not add up. Postgres fan. Will talk about idempotency keys until you leave.

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Marcus Johnson@marcus_oncall#6 in Ledger Lines
the redis one is real. it was "a cache". it was not a cache
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Tomasz Kowalski@tomasz_k#4 in Ledger Lines
varchar with commas in Indian format AND European format in same column. I have seen this. I am still recovering.
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Olivia Martin@liv_codes#6 in Ledger Lines
im a student and i already know never to use float for money purely because of this website lol
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