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Database Migration Wartime Stories

And some PostgreSQL not-so-well-known lock workarounds

Jul 23 •

Code-First Reliability in Payment Systems

Building Payments to fail as soon as possible

Jun 25 •

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

Jun 4 •

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.

May 21 •

5 Common Antipatterns in Payment Systems Design

They're sensible approaches that end up becoming major obstacles for scale and maintenance down the road.

Apr 23 •

Leveraging Spaced Repetition to Power My Weekly Newsletter

The Payments Engineer Playbook, April Cools edition

Apr 1 •

Hard-won Insights as a Service: The value of Payments Orchestration

As the traditional tools for payment performance gets commoditized away, their complement gets scarcer, less replicable, and more valuable.

Feb 12 •

Banks move money by sharing files, and that's OK

Engineers' efforts to build banking APIs have failed because they're approaching bank transfers the wrong way

Jan 22 •

NoDB: Processing Payments Without a Database

Making payments simpler and more reliable by removing databases out of the way.

Dec 18, 2024 •

The Playbook's 2024 Year In Review

The most popular and most important articles on The Payments Engineer Playbook in 2024.

Dec 11, 2024 •

Consistency, Availability, Prowess: How Stripe and Shopify push the limits of distributed payments

Changes on the infrastructure, noticing what the CAP theorem really means, and scaling like crazy.

Dec 4, 2024 •

How to build 99.999% uptime payment systems

In order to keep pace with state-of-the-art, money software must work for all possible databases

Nov 27, 2024 •

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