Global payment platform: Microservices at scale
Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: The global payment industry has witnessed a paradigmatic shift as leading platforms transition from monolithic architectures to microservices-based ecosystems. This article documents the global payment transformative journey through this complex migration, highlighting their innovative approaches to domain-bounded service decomposition, elasticity, and resilience engineering. The narrative follows their implementation of critical infrastructure components including API gateways, event-driven communication patterns, and polyglot persistence strategies while addressing the unique challenges of maintaining real-time transaction processing across multiple regions. Technical solutions including distributed tracing, machine learning-based anomaly detection, and business-impact observability provide valuable insights for organizations undertaking similar digital transformations in mission-critical financial systems.
Author: Vallabhaneni, Srinivas
Institution: Arizona State University
Language: English
Subfield: Computer Networks and Communications
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W7084604235
FWCI:
Cites:
Cited by:
Related to: