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Engineers Do Not Get To Make Startup Mistakes When They Build Ledgers
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Cringey, But True: How Uber Tests Payments In Production
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Why Payments Engineers Should Avoid State Machines
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NoDB: Processing Payments Without a Database
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The Ultimate Guide to Payment Tokens
Tokens are the Beautiful Chaos of Payments: lots of innovation happening under the hood, and more of that keeps coming.
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Alvaro Duran
Do Not Honor Is A Symptom That Proves That Payments Are Path-Dependent
A winning strategy to go around DNHs and improve payments authorization
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Alvaro Duran
Code-First Reliability in Payment Systems
Building Payments to fail as soon as possible
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Alvaro Duran
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Why Payments Aren't Money Movements
Payments are contracts, and require an ecosystem of tools on top of transfers
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Alvaro Duran
Ouch! What To Do When A Payment Fails
Categorizing errors, and learning to live with the disappointing Do Not Honor
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Alvaro Duran
Stripe Deploys 1,000 Times A Day And You Don't Deploy On Fridays
If you don't know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn
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Alvaro Duran
Enterprises Hope That Python Will Make Them AI-first
Maybe the surprise isn't that they're trying to follow the hype, but that they're abandoning Java
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Alvaro Duran
The Technical Face of Payments as a Service
How can technology make payment processing easier? Let me give you 4 ways, and a litmus test.
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Alvaro Duran
The Regulatory Face of Payments as a Service
Unbundling ISOs, Expanding the Card Payment Ecosystem, Spreading Mass Confusion
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Alvaro Duran
3RI Is A Technical Lever
Saving your customers from the annoying 3DS challenges, especially when they aren't around to perform them.
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Alvaro Duran
5 Common Antipatterns in Payment Systems Design
They're sensible approaches that end up becoming major obstacles for scale and maintenance down the road.
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Alvaro Duran
Never Make a Status Request Again: How to Communicate with PSPs
PSPs are satisfied when you receive the data you need, even if you get it multiple times
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Alvaro Duran
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