How we moved from a fragile loop-based payout system to a reliable, idempotent, and traceable architecture. On paper, payouts sound simple: Customer places an order Platform collects payment Platform pays the seller That's it. Until you try to do it at scale. In any marketplace or fintech system, money flows across multiple parties: Sellers / vendors Delivery partners Platform fees Discounts, vouc
War Story: I Ditched My CS Degree for a Bootcamp and Became a Go 1.25 Engineer I never thought I’d be writing this. Two years ago, I was three semesters into a traditional Computer Science degree, drowning in abstract calculus and outdated Java curriculum, wondering if I’d ever write code that actually mattered. Today, I’m a backend engineer working full-time with Go 1.25, building low-latency m