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The ID Gapless-Latency tradeoff
You can get unique identifiers at scale either by Coordinating or by Centralizing ID creation. But you can't get gapless sequences without having to…
Sep 3
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Alvaro Duran
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August 2025
Richard Pryor Stole a lot of Half Cents and Bought a Ferrari
Why Floats and Decimals as Money Make Illegal States Representable
Aug 27
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Alvaro Duran
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Paying At The Pump: Why Auth and Preauth Are Not The Same Thing
And how it affects implementing new payment methods that look "similar" from the outside
Aug 20
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Alvaro Duran
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The Playbook's 2025 Beach Reads
I love reading on the beach.
Aug 13
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Alvaro Duran
2
Testable Payment Webhooks
PSPs are prioritizing their engineers' experience above anyone else's
Aug 6
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Alvaro Duran
July 2025
Pull Requests Are Herbie
Why waiting for the damned PR is the main productivity hit for software teams
Jul 30
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Alvaro Duran
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Code-First Reliability: 4 Unconventional Approaches to Always-on Payments
Today is the launch of my newest book, titled Code-First Reliability.
Jul 25
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Alvaro Duran
2
Database Migration Wartime Stories
And some PostgreSQL not-so-well-known lock workarounds
Jul 23
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Alvaro Duran
1
The Joy of Being On Call For Payment Systems
How to be at ease when every second counts
Jul 16
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Alvaro Duran
1
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.
Jul 9
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Alvaro Duran
1
Why Payments Are Path-Dependent
A winning strategy to go around DNHs and improve payments authorization
Jul 2
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Alvaro Duran
1
June 2025
Code-First Reliability in Payment Systems
Building Payments to fail as soon as possible
Jun 25
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Alvaro Duran
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