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And why does Stripe need top developers? To make a REST API for payments? What am I missing?
by pdfcollect 13y ago
And why does Stripe need top developers? To make a REST API for payments? What am I missing?
- natebrennand 13y agoI suspect it's to do with the 100% uptime they should be aiming for. They might have some other interesting stuff they're working on as well.
- grinich 13y agoYou are missing an understanding of the complexities of the credit card payments industry.
- beat 13y agoPayments is an extremely hard problem. Try picking up a NACHA rulebook. Makes a great doorstop, it's the size of an old-school phone book. Don't know what NACHA is? Consider the possibility that you don't actually understand the problem space, then.
- nswanberg 13y agoNope, you nailed it. There is nothing in payments that requires more dev work than could fit in an Excel function. Patrick admitted as much with this screenshot of the complete Stripe codebase earlier this week: https://twitter.com/patrickc/status/381779690567913472 https://twitter.com/patrickc/status/381779690567913472 That said, the pingpong tables aren't going to play themselves...