How Stripe Handles Payments at Scale Without Losing a Cent

<p>Payments are the hardest problem in backend engineering, not because the code is complicated, but because the failure modes are unforgiving. A social feed can drop a post and recover. A payment system that charges a customer twice, loses a successful charge, or records a refund that never happened has created a real financial discrepancy, and that discrepancy will be discovered by a customer, a

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