Tales and tutorials on the road to developing software
Most document systems are built for storage and extraction.
That is the wrong goal.
In high-trust environments, the real job is not to collect documents or parse fields. It is to determine whether the available evidence actually supports a claim.
That is a different system.
Organizations generate endless documentation: invoices, contracts, certifications, logs, reports, statements, attestations.… Read more
Scheduled financial transfers sound simple. A customer creates an instruction — for example, “transfer $100 every week” — and the system processes the transaction on the appropriate day.
Many systems begin with a straightforward implementation. A daily job reads instructions from a database, generates transactions, and attempts to process them. For a small system this can work well enough.… Read more