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Reviewing an AI-Assisted Batching PR

DatadogSoftware Engineer · Senior+ · Onsite · Aug 2026

In the code review round, I was given a pull request for an issue where a Python application was crashing under heavy load. The pull request changed the existing synchronous processor, which handled one request at a time, into a batched processor that handled 40 requests at a time. The repository still included the synchronous processor as a reference. However, if creation of the batched processo…

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