The Payments Engineer Playbook

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Modern Treasury's Stablecoin Sandwich
After acquiring Beam, Modern Treasury wants to become the developer-first API for moving money in any form.
Feb 19 • Alvaro Duran
What payment providers can learn from Go contexts
GOTO may have been “considered harmful” since 1968.
Oct 22, 2025 • Alvaro Duran
Ouch! What To Do When A Payment Fails
Categorizing errors, and learning to live with the disappointing Do Not Honor
Jun 11, 2025 • 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.
May 21, 2025 • Alvaro Duran
Why Orchestration Matters To Payments Engineers
System mitosis, Tech companies as federations, and you
Feb 19, 2025 • Alvaro Duran
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, 2025 • Alvaro Duran
Payments Patterns: Elements of Reusable Money Software
Laying the foundations for a builder-centric catalog of payment methods
Jan 2, 2025 • Alvaro Duran
Payment for Payment Flow: How revenue sharing agreements impact payment orchestration
Markets that compete on volume often share some of their revenue with their intermediaries
Nov 13, 2024 • Alvaro Duran
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