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Engineers do not get to make startup mistakes when they build ledgers
Practical accounting for fintech engineers, and also how not to repeat my silly mistakes.
Alvaro Duran
The only publication on Earth tailor-made for the builders of money software. Click to read The Payments Engineer Playbook, by Alvaro Duran, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.
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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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Nobody got fired for Uber's $8M ledger mistake?
LedgerStore became a case study for DynamoDB, and system design publications keep praising it to this day. But the design was abandoned 3 years after it went live.