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Architecture, reliability and the day-to-day craft of building software that lasts.
Marketplaces look simple from the outside: supply, demand, a list in between. Underneath, they are a money system with a search problem attached. Here is the architecture we landed on, and what we would do again.
Brice Fotso3 min read
Teams often treat offline support as a technical feature added late. In the field, it decides whether an agent can finish a deposit on a bus to Bafoussam. Here is how we design for it from the first sketch.
Brice Fotso2 min read