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Nov 27 2019

Technical Debt with Payment Processing

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Technical Debt with Payment Processing
Joe Ferris, CTO at thoughtbot, gives a talk about technical debt in payments. This talk gives great insight into some things payments teams may want to avoid when planning payments flows.
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