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🎉 Milestone alert! Our API just crossed 1 million requests in a single day! API Growth When we launched 18 months ago, we were handling about 1,000 requests per day. Today we hit 1 million. That’s 1,000x growth! API Overview Our REST API provides: Customer management endpoints Transaction processing Analytics data export Webhook integrations Most… Continue reading Our API Hit 1 Million Requests Today!

When we started PayFlow Analytics, we needed a reliable payment processor. After evaluating several options, we chose Stripe. Why Stripe? Developer-friendly API – Well documented, easy to integrate PCI compliance – They handle the complexity Transparent pricing – 2.9% + 30¢ per transaction Good documentation – Saved us weeks of development time Webhook support –… Continue reading Why We Chose Stripe for Credit Card Processing

We recently rebuilt our authentication system from scratch. This post documents our approach and lessons learned. Requirements Session-based auth for web app JWT tokens for API access Support for 2FA (future) Session timeout: 30 minutes Implementation We use Express sessions with Redis as the session store: const session = require(‘express-session’); const RedisStore = require(‘connect-redis’)(session); const… Continue reading Building Our Authentication System – Dev Notes

PayFlow Analytics now processes over $2 million in monthly transactions for our customers. Here’s how our payment infrastructure works. Architecture We use Stripe as our payment processor. When a customer makes a payment: Customer enters payment details on our secure checkout page Payment info is sent directly to Stripe (we never store credit card numbers)… Continue reading How We Process $2M in Monthly Transactions

This week we completed the migration of our entire customer database to our new infrastructure. With over 50,000 customer records, this was no small undertaking. The Challenge Our legacy MySQL 5.7 database was showing its age. Query performance had degraded, and we were approaching storage limits. We decided to migrate to a new MySQL 8.0… Continue reading Migrating 50,000 Customer Records to Our New Database