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askerad
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Started my new internship for the summer.

"Hey, our client's prestashop is getting really slow, could you please do something about it ?"
I go poke around to see what i can do, and after some research i see the problem. The search bar was taking 20-60s to load what was sometimes 16 objects.

The client was using a prestashop with the default search engine. 175000 products were registered. NO WONDER IT'S FUCKIN SLOW.

So on my first day of internship i entirely re-coded prestashop's product search function. I feel like this is not internship level stuff.

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  • 10
    It's not. Great job! Crazy that it only took you one day.

    Similar thing happened to an intern at Google. Great read:

    https://sourcetrail.com/blog/...
  • 9
    You should feel like an outstanding intern with a bright future... good on ya' =)
  • 0
    I feel like i talked too good of myself there ... i just removed everything superfluous and changed the sql query to search names instead of going through prestashop's indexes ..

    Even though i hope interns would never touch prestashop like that. Damn it's hard to understand when you've never touched it before ...
  • 1
    @askerad
    "Even though i hope interns would never touch prestashop like that. Damn it's hard to understand when you've never touched it before ..."

    Me, talking about woman.
  • 0
    @chadd17 is it worth it to try it out?
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