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Fintech What Actually Decides Whether Your Payments Product Ships
calendar August 17, 2026 author GPO-Tech

What Actually Decides Whether Your Payments Product Ships

How to build a money transfer product when the app is the easy part — licence versus BaaS partner, corridors as commercial commitments, unit economics per transfer, and why compliance never stops costing.

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Fintech Who Owns What: Responsibility in a Growing Engineering Team
calendar August 17, 2026 author GPO-Tech

Who Owns What: Responsibility in a Growing Engineering Team

Code ownership in an engineering team that has outgrown "everyone knows everything" — named owners, written decision rights, you-build-it-you-run-it, runbooks, ADRs, handover and money-incident protocol.

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Fintech When to Hire Engineers, and Who to Hire First
calendar August 17, 2026 author GPO-Tech

When to Hire Engineers, and Who to Hire First

When to hire engineers in a startup: hire when the bottleneck is capacity, not clarity. Who to hire first, Conway's law, team-size thresholds and the honest alternatives.

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Fintech How to Split a Monolith Without Stopping the Roadmap
calendar August 17, 2026 author GPO-Tech

How to Split a Monolith Without Stopping the Roadmap

How to split a monolith into services without a rewrite: the strangler fig pattern, the right extraction order, splitting the database before the code, the outbox pattern and reconciliation when money is involved.

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Fintech When to Actually Split the Monolith
calendar August 17, 2026 author GPO-Tech

When to Actually Split the Monolith

When to split a monolith into microservices — the five real signals, the false ones, what to try first, and the metric to write down before you start.

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