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Virtual Bank Accounts Are Virtually Inexhaustible
Why are we using unstructured text when a strict alphanumeric ID can do the job better?
May 27
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Alvaro Duran
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No Such Thing As A Currency Of Reference
If nobody traded on the exchange rate you wrote down, is it really a record?
May 20
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Alvaro Duran
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Source-Destination Pairs Need Imaginary Accounts to Work
Why Debits and Credits are the universal grammar of accounting
May 13
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Alvaro Duran
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Why Database-Layer Double-Entry Is a Bet, Not a Guarantee
An invariant baked into the schema doesn't survive a changing business
May 6
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Alvaro Duran
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April 2026
The Only Accounting You Need to Know to Build a Ledger
5 use cases, 6 operations, and why your accounting course skipped the parts that matter to you.
Apr 29
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Alvaro Duran
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There Are Only 3 Databases You Can Trust With Your Money
Why the most popular choices are the most risky, and which ones to choose instead.
Apr 22
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Alvaro Duran
Nobody Got Fired for Uber's $8 Million Ledger Mistake?
LedgerStore became a case study for DynamoDB, and system design publications keep praising it to this day. But the design was abandoned 3 years after it…
Apr 15
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Alvaro Duran
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Ledger Transactions Don't Have to Be Atomic
Up-in-the-airness, and looking at ledgers through the lens of Sagas
Apr 8
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Alvaro Duran
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The Luxury Playbook for Online Businesses
Introducing a different kind of playbook for a different kind of startup
Apr 1
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Alvaro Duran
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March 2026
Why Ledgers Are More Than Data Warehouses of Money
And why integrity, not double-entry, is the foundation of financial software
Mar 25
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Alvaro Duran
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You Don't Know What a Ledger Is For
You think you do, but you don't
Mar 18
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Alvaro Duran
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How to Explain Accounting To Payments Engineers
The limitations of the use of UML-like diagrams to model financial transactions
Mar 11
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Alvaro Duran
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