by Khaleel Freeman, Android Developer — Back in early May, Adyen was present at KotlinDevDay in Amsterdam. The single day conference was a great way for the Kotlin community to come back together after a 2 year hiatus. One of the tracks even took place right in the stadium! During the event, Khaleel Freeman (one of…

Romulo Jovelli, Senior Software Engineer — Startups have the strategic advantage of being flexible and to react to changes in far faster ways than larger organizations. This is possible because the amount of people involved is so small that communication and ideas flow easily among everyone. To imitate this advantage, agile methodologies suggest that larger companies…

by Derk van Veen & Dave Pitts, DBAs, Adyen — At Adyen, we use PostgreSQL as our preferred database and have been running (for many years) one of the largest implementations in the world. In this blogpost, our Database Architects detail how they have been able to mitigate one of its biggest technical challenges — write amplification. Short introduction to PostgreSQL write amplification Write amplification may…

By Beppe Catanese, Developer Advocate, Adyen — The Developer Experience team at Adyen has been busy with a significant redesign of the “API credentials” screens. This is the section of the Customer Area where our merchants manage the configuration to enable access to the backend of the Adyen platform. List screen The “API Credentials” list is the entry point…

This month, we released the Management API, a set of APIs to help automate many of your administration and configuration workflows. …

By Amy Mbaegbu, Developer Advocate, Adyen — A short walk-through of why and how Preactjs came to be adopted as the tooling to develop some SDKs offered on our platform. Introduction Would you use a chainsaw to cut through a sheet of paper? Or scissors to cut metal? …

Khaleel Freeman, Software Engineer, Adyen — Android at Adyen is not your typical Android role. Normally, most application development is tightly coupled to Google Play; So to understand the payments app development space, it requires a shift in who the potential customers are, and what the marketplace looks like. This article will provide you with an…

By Andreu Mora, VP of Engineering — Data Science and Machine Learning at Adyen The “Scaling up data culture” series is a number of blog posts that spin off from the journey taken by individuals and companies, like Adyen, that started investing and embracing data in their organizations some years…

By Beppe Catanese, Developer Advocate, Adyen — It has been quite a week for the Java Ecosystem and the Open Source communities: on December 9, 2021, a critical vulnerability was discovered in the popular Java Logging framework Log4j (version 2). In this blog post I am going to talk about the Log4j vulnerability and how Adyen responded…