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Payment Gateway Architecture: Idempotency, Webhooks, Security, and Scaling Beyond the Happy Path

BLOG ARTICLE Published on October 19, 2026

Written by kevin

Source: DEV Community - System Design 1 min read intermediate

Summary

A payment gateway integration can look deceptively simple. A customer clicks Pay, the application sends a request, the provider processes the transaction, and the interface displays success. Real payment systems are rarely that predictable. Network timeouts, duplicate webhook events, delayed settlement, interrupted checkouts, fraud checks, and inconsistent transaction states can turn a basic integration into a reliability problem. The most important payment engineering decisions are often...

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