The Payments Engineer Playbook

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5 Common Antipatterns in Payment Systems Design
They're sensible approaches that end up becoming major obstacles for scale and maintenance down the road.
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The Most Important Book In Payments Is a Data Systems Book
Challenging the belief that good software design isolates business concerns on the domain layer.
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Exactly-Once Payments At Airbnb
Eventually consistent databases make it really hard to ensure that payments are made only once. Idempotency and clever retries make it possible.
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Cringey, But True: How Uber Tests Payments In Production
Well-run payment systems are developed by engineers who understand what is the best use of their time: to catch unknown unknowns, and to do it fast.
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Doubling Down On The Engineers of Payments
Money in Transit will be from now on The Payments Engineer Playbook
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The Narrow Waist of Payments Orchestration
A Revolution in Payments Technology May Start With Lego-like Primitives and Narrow Focus on a Commoditized Complement
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Acquiring: Call It a Prototype
Why Open Source Payment Applications Is An Opportunity Hidden in Plain Sight
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