Why Deleting Financial Data is a Crime: The Power of Immutability and Reversals in Modern Payment Pipelines
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If you ask a junior web developer how to fix a typo in a database record, they will likely suggest an in-place UPDATE statement or a soft delete. In standard web development—say, updating a user’s shipping address or modifying a blog post title—mutating data in place is completely normal. Now, appl…
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Why Deleting Financial Data is a Crime: The Power of Immutability and Reversals in Modern Payment Pipelines