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How do you design a high-throughput payment system?
Updated May 6, 2026
Short answer
A payment system uses distributed services, queues, and strong consistency mechanisms.
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It includes API gateway, payment service, ledger service, message queue (Kafka), and database with ACID guarantees. Idempotency is critical.
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