Nobody Got Fired for Uber's $8M Ledger Mistake?(news.alvaroduran.com)

108 points by ohduran 6 months ago | 73 comments

Why Payments Engineers Should Avoid State Machines(news.alvaroduran.com)

20 points by ohduran 2 years ago | 9 comments

How to build 99.999% uptime payment systems(news.alvaroduran.com)

17 points by ohduran 1 year ago | 11 comments

Fintech engineering mistakes (2022)(startupwin.kelsus.com)

105 points by 0x54MUR41 3 years ago | 93 comments

NoDB: Processing Payments Without a Database(news.alvaroduran.com)

25 points by ohduran 1 year ago | 11 comments

Exactly-Once Payments at Airbnb(news.alvaroduran.com)

5 points by ohduran 2 years ago | 2 comments

Mistakes engineers make in large established codebases(seangoedecke.com)

695 points by BerislavLopac 1 year ago | 307 comments

Blog post by Sean Goedecke on common mistakes engineers make when working in large, decade-old codebases with hundreds of contributors.

Practical UX for startups surviving without a designer(tibinotes.com)

387 points by tb8424 1 year ago | 156 comments

A Substack essay by Tibi Iorga on how startups can work out their user experience without a dedicated designer, time, or budget.

Engineering principles for building financial systems(substack.wasteman.codes)

340 points by KothuRoti 2 years ago | 83 comments

A Substack blog post sharing engineering principles and best practices for building accurate and reliable software-based financial systems.

Software engineers hate code(dancowell.com)

323 points by dfcowell 3 years ago | 185 comments

A blog post by Dan Cowell arguing that software engineers dislike code and prefer writing less of it.

I tried building my startup entirely on European infrastructure(coinerella.com)

631 points by willy__ 8 months ago | 321 comments

A blog post by a founder describing building a startup entirely on European infrastructure, the stack chosen, the difficulties, and unavoidable non-EU dependencies.

We're Missing a Key Reason Why Americans Hate AI(derekthompson.org)

11 points by abe94 24 days ago | 8 comments

A paid Substack essay by Derek Thompson arguing the AI buildout has raised costs rather than delivering cheap abundance, fueling American hostility to AI.