by Beppe Catanese, Developer Advocate, Adyen — Testing payment flows is a challenging and time-consuming process, involving multiple steps, different payment methods, and manually entering data such as card details. We’ve built the Adyen Test Card Chrome extension to solve this challenge, designed to simplify the testing process. …

By Jacob Omaits, Software Engineer, Adyen — TL;DR: Winning market share is difficult. You and your team are racing daily to end up in first place. To be successful, you must invest heavily into your technology. There are some key technical aspects of any integration you should carefully consider. …

By Meeher Kapoor · Technical Support Engineer (Platform and Financial Services) and Kwok He Chu · Developer Advocate at Adyen Adyen for Platforms offers a comprehensive solution tailored for marketplaces that aim to deliver a flexible, robust and fully-featured platform to support their merchants and end users on a large…

By Alessandro Niciforo, Java Engineer, Platform Observability — We started a series of articles delving into our Observability pursuits within Adyen — Tales from Observability. In our first post, we shared about our learnings working with Elasticsearch: Elasticsearch Performance Killers. In this post, we’ll go over the journey of implementing Service Level Objectives (SLOs) at Adyen from the…

By Kwok He Chu, Developer Advocate at Adyen. — This technical blog post explains how developers can implement a hotel booking payment process using Adyen’s API. It covers pre-authorizations, amount adjustments, extending authorization expiry dates, capturing payments, refunding payments and webhook payloads. At Adyen, we understand that modern businesses across different industries require various payment solutions for different use…

By Derk van Veen, Database Engineer, Adyen — Recap In our previous blog we discussed the basics of table partitioning in PostgreSQL. The main takeaway is that there are two strategies: inheritance and declarative/native partitioning. Inheritance-based partitioning gives you the most freedom, but it is more limited with respect to partition pruning, and not transparent to the application. With…

In this blog, we discuss our decision process to build a data platform that is powerful but yet stays guided by our ethos. by Andreu Mora · SVP / Global Head of Engineering Data, Adyen My wife and I are quite different in our shopping habits. She likes analysing the…

By Feng Zhao, Tingting Qiao and Erdi Calli, Data Scientists, Platform Risk, Adyen. — Marketplace seller fraud is an ever-evolving challenge that poses significant risks to merchants’ financial security. It consists of a range of malicious activities, for example: identity theft, phishing attacks, credential stuffing, and account takeovers. …

By Eavan Pattie, Java Engineer, Platform Observability, Adyen — Tales from Observability series will delve into our ongoing pursuit of Observability at Adyen. Within these articles, we’ll dive into the challenges we encounter while scaling our data pipelines to accommodate the ever-growing load of telemetry data. Additionally, we’ll explore the tools we adopted to empower engineering at Adyen, fostering…