WePay Engineering

Data Backfilling at WePay


A perennial issue in the payments world is fraud. At WePay, we have our own fraud-detection system to deal with a variety of fraud issues....

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Splitting traffic with SplitIO


At WePay we are constantly evolving our core infrastructure to better meet the needs of our customers, whether that’s broadening the feature set for our...

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I am a fan of simple solutions. In this post, I explain how we used Jekyll and GitHub Pages to solve our need for a...

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Change data capture has been around for a while, but some recent developments in technology have given it new life. Notably, using Kafka as a...

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Sensu at WePay


My first project here at WePay was to replace our legacy monitoring system Check_MK, with something that we can easily configure and scale to meet...

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Supporting Chip Cards at WePay


You have probably noticed that your credit cards now have little chips in them. You may have already used them at stores by inserting (or...

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Kafka Avro client


WePay uses Apache Kafka as its real time message broker service to publish and consume realtime events. Messages published to Kafka topics can adhere to...

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Interviewing at WePay - The Why


In my last post, I consumed your valuable screen and brain space discussing what our interviewing process looks like - what we do, and what...

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WePay uses various machine-learning models to detect fraudulent payments and manage risk for payers, merchants and their platforms. The Problem In a previous blog post,...

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WePay recently released an open-source Kafka-BigQuery Connector on GitHub. We’ve decided to celebrate with a blog post detailing what exactly a Kafka Connector is, how...

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Introduction Webhooks are user-defined HTTP callbacks. At WePay, we make use of webhooks we call Instant Payment Notifications or IPNs to update our partners on...

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What is this post about interviewing doing taking up valuable screen real estate on an engineering blog? Shouldn’t it be filled with discussions of cool...

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BigQuery at WePay


Our previous posts provided an overview of our data warehouse, and discussed how we use Airflow to schedule our ETL pipeline. In this post, we’ll...

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Airflow at WePay


NOTE: We recently gave an Airflow at WePay talk to the Bay Area Airflow meetup group. The video and slides are both available. Our last...

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Over the coming weeks, we’ll be writing a series of posts describing how we’ve built and run WePay’s data warehouse. This series will cover our...

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In payments, as the volume of transactions increases, the number of ways things can go wrong also increases. This is particularly true at the point...

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