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
I still remember where i was when the email came in. December 25th. Christmas morning. Phone in hand while having breakfast, and there is an email from our client's CTO. No greetings, Just "We're terminating the contract. Our legal team will be in touch" We lost a 120K a year contract. On a Christmas morning because of a date calculation bug that none of us, not a person on a team of 5 experienced
I spent the long weekend pushing Logic Apps MCP server capabilities further than I had before — and hit two bugs worth documenting. Both are filed. If you're building in this space, save yourself the debugging time. If you've been following along, the MCP server and BODMAS Agent are covered in the previous posts. This post is just about what broke when I wired them together. The Agent Loop fails w