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Architecture

UAE Open Banking: What Payment Platforms Need to Prepare For

The UAE Central Bank's Open Finance framework will require payment gateways and wallet platforms to expose regulated APIs. Here is what engineering teams need to build before the deadlines arrive.

May 10, 20259 min read
Engineering

Scaling Payment Gateways Beyond 1 Million Transactions Per Day

The architecture decisions that work at 100K transactions per day become the bottlenecks at 1M. Here is what needs to change and in what order.

May 3, 202511 min read
Operations

The Hidden Cost of Manual Reconciliation in Wallet Platforms

Manual reconciliation is not just expensive to run — it signals an architecture that will fail at scale. Understanding what drives reconciliation failures is the first step to eliminating them.

April 28, 20258 min read
Architecture

Why Your Last Load Test Is Giving You a False Sense of Security

When high-TPS systems crash, it’s rarely because they ran out of CPU or RAM. They crash because of database locks, connection pool exhaustion, and fragile APIs. Stop trusting green dashboards and learn how to find your architecture's actual breaking point.

May 23, 20262 min read
Architecture

The Most Common Architecture Mistakes in Payment Gateways

After reviewing dozens of payment gateway architectures, the same failure patterns appear repeatedly. Here are the seven mistakes we see most often and how to fix them.

April 15, 20258 min read
Engineering

Ledger Design Principles for Wallet Platforms

Most wallet platform problems trace back to ledger design decisions made early in the project. Getting the data model right from the start is cheaper than fixing it under load.

March 28, 202512 min read

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