<ul data-eligibleForWebStory="true"><li>The developer encountered race conditions in a project involving a global variable feature.</li><li>A gamification banner project led to unintended consequences due to race conditions.</li><li>Race conditions caused 37 extra vouchers to be given away erroneously.</li><li>The developer learned about reconciliation strategies like last-write-wins, sum-increments, merge-objects, and max-value.</li><li>Default settings may not suffice in handling critical scenarios affected by race conditions.</li><li>Testing for concurrency and relying on math over instincts are crucial in development.</li><li>Edge computing speed can lead to unexpected race conditions.</li><li>Switching to sum-increments helped in counting accurately but may not solve all issues.</li><li>The developer continues to learn and improve, emphasizing the importance of setting up reconciliation strategies before production.</li><li>The gamification banner project is now functioning correctly after adjustments.</li><li>Building in public involves learning from mistakes, admitting limitations, and evolving.</li><li>The motto adopted is 'Move fast but scale correctly.'</li></ul>

TODAY I LEARNED: Race Conditions (Literally 💸)

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