Its really not about scale. I can process 1 or 1million JSON messages with the same effort. Now also support 25 other message formats? Doesnt scale the same way. I can support a trillion of US/Canadian/European…
>> Yes, and if it doesn't need even close to one FTE to do this for 5-10 countries, why the hell would you suddenly need 15 to do it for 100? Because things dont scale linearly? I mean I can support JSON messages in…
>> So what have people done? SWEs jet out of the office at 5, many are running startups on the side, some are consulting on the side. I'm not the GP poster but that sounds like a good deal. So collect a paycheck, nod…
Can all the US mom-and-pop websites collecting payments from US consumers please explain how they would proceed to effortlessly collect payments in Africa? The Middle East? Pakistan? This is an honest question, because…
>> 90% of our transactions were USA, about 8% were Canada. And the other 2% was from Singapore. Never ran into any problem with these. And I once ran a python script on my local computer and had no scaling issues. I…
I can also do payments myself in "7 or 8 countries". If you can do payments in 100 countries by yourself, please please let me know how! I think a lot of technologists confuse deploying code with actually handling…
Its really not about scale. I can process 1 or 1million JSON messages with the same effort. Now also support 25 other message formats? Doesnt scale the same way. I can support a trillion of US/Canadian/European…
>> Yes, and if it doesn't need even close to one FTE to do this for 5-10 countries, why the hell would you suddenly need 15 to do it for 100? Because things dont scale linearly? I mean I can support JSON messages in…
>> So what have people done? SWEs jet out of the office at 5, many are running startups on the side, some are consulting on the side. I'm not the GP poster but that sounds like a good deal. So collect a paycheck, nod…
Can all the US mom-and-pop websites collecting payments from US consumers please explain how they would proceed to effortlessly collect payments in Africa? The Middle East? Pakistan? This is an honest question, because…
>> 90% of our transactions were USA, about 8% were Canada. And the other 2% was from Singapore. Never ran into any problem with these. And I once ran a python script on my local computer and had no scaling issues. I…
I can also do payments myself in "7 or 8 countries". If you can do payments in 100 countries by yourself, please please let me know how! I think a lot of technologists confuse deploying code with actually handling…