#platform
5 essays tagged "platform".
Mar 15, 2020
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Partition toggling: a compliance hack under pressure
Nov 17, 2019 When the purge backlog grew faster than we could process it, the fix was not a faster purge job. It was using the database topology we already had.
A smart router solved what application code could not scale
Sep 8, 2019 When integrating multiple encryption services across acquired brands, the answer was not more code. It was an HAProxy rule.
Grandfathering 3DS2: a 4-sprint regulatory scramble
Jun 9, 2019 When we discovered stored cards that could not process recurring payments after SCA went live, we had four sprints to fix it without breaking the customer experience.
Quick Submit: when the right feature is the one that removes work
Aug 19, 2018 Partners were spending hours preparing invoice files we already had the data for. The fix was not a better upload form.
Batch to API: why I argued against reusing a proven pattern
The team wanted to batch API calls to a Korean payment processor because that is how we did it with Chase. The abstraction was wrong.