Tag Vendor Management

When a Third-Party API Became Our Bottleneck

The application was healthy. CPU was normal. Memory was stable. The database was performing well. Internal services were responding within their expected latency. And yet one part of the system was getting slower. Payment requests. At first, we looked at…

When Buying Was Better Than Building

For 18 months, we built our own fraud detection system. The reasoning seemed sound. Fraud was important. Payments were core to the business. We had strong engineers. We had access to transaction data. And building the capability ourselves would give…