Best Practices for Payments Startups: Insights and Lessons Learned

The text provides valuable insights and lessons learned from working in payments startups, including the importance of using existing tools before adding new ones, optimizing for change, focusing on iteration, testing, utilizing a modular monolith approach, storing data in the database, making it easy to query the database, dealing with data consistency issues, version controlling generated files, maintaining decision logs, and implementing continuous deployment. The author emphasizes the significance of simplicity, adaptability, and automation in the development process.

• Use existing tools before adding new ones
• Optimize for change
• Focus on iteration
• Testing strategies
• Modular monolith approach
• Storing data in the database
• Making it easy to query the database
• Dealing with data consistency issues
• Version controlling generated files
• Maintaining decision logs
• Implementing continuous deployment