Lessons Learned From Payments Startups
Over my career so far, I’ve worked in a number of payments companies, including several startups. At the last startup, I was involved in building out a payme...
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Storing External Requests
I’ve worked in payment systems for a long time, and one common theme is that they make a lot of 3rd party API calls. For example, there are numerous payment ...
Two Exciting PostgreSQL Features To Improve NULL Handling
I recently learned about two PostgreSQL features that make handling NULL values more sane.
ULID Identifiers and ULID Tools Website
Historically, when I wanted to store data in a database, I (or the project/team I was on) used an incrementing integer to uniquely identify each row (e.g. th...
Simple Command Line Function to Decode JWTs
I come across a lot of JSON Web Tokens (JWTs) these days, and I often want a quick way to see what information is encoded in them. An easy solution is to vis...