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Practical notes on payment systems, Kafka and API management, from building them. New posts are added here as I write them. Each one first appeared on LinkedIn.

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Latest

May 9, 2026 · 4 min read3scale and payments: why it keeps winning in financial infrastructureIn payments, a poorly governed API is not just a technical problem. It is a compliance breach, a security gap, and a trust issue, all at once.PaymentsAPI management3scaleOpenShiftRead the post

Earlier posts

April 8, 20264 min readWhy payments teams move to Avro on KafkaPlain JSON Kafka worked fine, until it didn't. Schema drift, bloated payloads and contract breaks became the team's biggest operational headache.KafkaAvroSchema RegistryBackend