The Big Transaction

Created by engineers for engineers, The Big Transaction is an annual tech conference focused on teaching the best practices for creating robust payment systems!

[Joel Taylor @joeltaylor]

In case you missed it, the talks from @BigTransaction are now uploaded to YouTube! Already looking forward to next year.

https://t.co/MHEFhPK1UW

[Joel Taylor @joeltaylor]

One of my favorite parts of @BigTransaction was connecting with folks across industries and realizing we all share similar challenges and are asking the same questions.

Payments engineering can be hard, but I'm excited to see what comes from more collaboration.

[📐 MARCO PINEDA @marcopineda__]

“In the US we are in the dark ages of payments” - Andy Barker @BigTransaction

[Joel Taylor @joeltaylor]

Love the three rules of payments that @andypayments just dropped at @BigTransaction

1) It will break
2) If someone tells you otherwise – refer to #1
3) Log, log, and log

[The Big Transaction @BigTransaction]

Starting in 10 min - the @Pagos_AI interactive Q&A panel - join us and learn how to navigate the common #payments pitfalls that can negatively impact your business. Fantastic lineup including @andypayments, @benemills, @elcgray, @miriamgoldberg, @adrouart, and hopefully you too!

[The Big Transaction @BigTransaction]

Now hearing from Colin Luce (@colintluce) from Basis Theory (@basistheory), speaking on "Payments Tokenization & Data Ownership." He's talking about how token independence enables a seamless customer and checkout experience, and provides the flexibility to route transactions.

[The Big Transaction @BigTransaction]

And @Pagos_AI is hosting an interactive Q&A panel later today on how to navigate the common #payments pitfalls that can negatively impact your business. The panel includes @andypayments, @benemills, @elcgray, @miriamgoldberg, @adrouart, and hopefully you too! Don't miss it!

[The Big Transaction @BigTransaction]

Now hearing from Shawn Krisman on "Scaling Feature Development by Making Clients Dumber." Checkout at @Affirm requires new features to be duplicated across clients, and he's speaking how to manage these keeping the checkout experience secure & consistent!

[Joel Taylor @joeltaylor]

History was made today by @BigSeanSSB who presented the first ever k-pop themed payments talk at @BigTransaction ✨

[Jono Stiansen 🇨🇦🥃 @JonoCodes]

Reoccuring payments: What could go wrong? With @dathanb from @netflix (at @BigTransaction)

a thread 🧵

[The Big Transaction @BigTransaction]

Now hearing from Sam Aarons (@samaarons) from @moderntreasury on "ISO 20022 is Eating the World." ISO 20022 is becoming the lingua franca for #payment systems internationally, and he's explaining how to architect your systems to prepare for the transition!

[The Big Transaction @BigTransaction]

Now hearing from Dathan Bennett from @NetflixEng, speaking on "Robust Recurring Payments," an in-depth examination of double-charge issues encountered when building recurring payment processing systems and how to make your system robust to them. #payments #paymentsengineering

[The Big Transaction @BigTransaction]

Now hearing from Chris Traganos (@chris_trag ) from @StripeDev with his talk, "Stacks on stacks on stacks: Payments, API upgrades, and Open Source" Great talk on the common pitfalls for software architects when maintaining and inheriting existing customer payment flows. #payments

[The Big Transaction @BigTransaction]

Now speaking - John Crepezzi (@seejohnrun) is talking all about "Metered Billing at Scale", covering GitHub's approach to billing, some new work they've been doing to support metered products, and the challenges they've faced along the way! #payments #paymentsengineering

[Jono Stiansen 🇨🇦🥃 @JonoCodes]

Processing payments in the EU vs the US by @FionaManzella (at @BigTransaction)

a thread 👇

[The Big Transaction @BigTransaction]

Fiona Manzella from @Patreon is now speaking on "Across The Pond: Processing #Payments in the EU vs the US." It's a crash course on the Payments Service Directive, why it matters, and how to handle issuing and acquiring banks in the European Economic Area during checkout!

[Jono Stiansen 🇨🇦🥃 @JonoCodes]

How @ShopifyEng builds resilient payments systems to deal with flash sales (from @BigTransaction) by @bdewater

10 tips and tricks to up your resiliency game
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[📐 MARCO PINEDA @marcopineda__]

Attending the @BigTransaction and a listening to a @Shopify Engineer and I couldn’t be happier. #payments

[The Big Transaction @BigTransaction]

Today's the day! We're getting ready to start and opening up the event early if you want to chat and meet others beforehand! Also not too late to purchase a ticket (https://t.co/AEuXZpFIgI)! See you there!! #payments #paymentsengineering

[Shopify Engineering @ShopifyEng]

Want to understand how we build reliable and scalable systems to handle the huge flash sales on our platform? Don't miss @bdewater's session at @bigtransaction — he'll talk about adding circuit breakers, stress testing, learnings & more!

More info here 👉 https://t.co/MRjmv5p3nU