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That also has the benefit of system redundancy, in case one goes down.
by dajohnson89 8y ago
That also has the benefit of system redundancy, in case one goes down.
- captain_perl 8y agoLarge companies typically do payments in batches, not one-by-one, so the redundancy is not needed. However, if they're trying to do per ride auths, then they might need redundancy there. Hard to imagine they do that.
- philip1209 8y agoI don't think they auth per ride. I definitely had a "you owe us money" flow after getting food successfully delivered though Uber eats on a deactivated card.
- adw 8y agoI get push notifications on auth on both my debit and credit cards. Weak evidence, but my hunch based on what I see there is that there's some dollar value where they pre-auth (somewhere around $25, I think).
- zck 8y ago"Goes down" could include things like "we're going to increase your pricing by 10 cents per charge". It's a much stronger negotiating position that Uber is in if they can say "we can switch 100% of our volume to Stripe in a minute by going to admin.uber.com and flipping a single feature flag".
- adtac 8y agoOr even better: "we automatically route traffic to the cheaper option and this requires no human intervention, so don't even bother"