alt Hacker NewsYou'd be surprised how little volume of api calls payments companies get compared to advertising companies or consumer internet companies. Stripe aren't especially well placed to own this asset on a technical level. That doesn't make this a bad acquisition per se, but there is no magic stripe can inject here as far as infra/technology is concerned.
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calvinmorrison • today at 1:30 AM
You'd be surprised how antiquainted many of them are. I don't mean Stripe or Braintree but the long tail of terrible terrible credit card processors. If I hear "Chase Payment Gateway" I shudder.
Agree, even in the payments space usage-billing metrics providers like Chargebee / Lago etc get order(s) of magnitude more data than payment.
Granted payments and associated ledges require a level of consistency that other systems do not require, but that is orthogonal to high volume.