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From Stock Markets To Ledgers, Part VI: Mechanical Sympathy
3 books to satiate your curiosity and ambition
Dec 10 • Alvaro Duran
From Stock Markets To Ledgers, Part IV: Queues
AMQP failed, but companies building ledgers pretend that it didn't
Nov 26 • Alvaro Duran
From Stock Markets To Ledgers, Part I: Fairness
Why fairness, not speed, is the ultimate validation of stock markets
Oct 29 • Alvaro Duran
CQRS Is Just Balances And Records
Ledgers are hard because you're forced to separate reads from writes
Sep 24 • Alvaro Duran
Testable Payment Webhooks
PSPs are prioritizing their engineers' experience above anyone else's
Aug 6 • Alvaro Duran
NoDB: Processing Payments Without a Database
Making payments simpler and more reliable by removing databases out of the way.
Dec 18, 2024 • Alvaro Duran
How Modern Treasury Invented Event Locking
Race conditions are the nastiest problem in money software. They've forced engineers to make wrong design choices. Not anymore.
Nov 20, 2024 • Alvaro Duran
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