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Banking Systems at Scale

6 questions · ~5 min · intermediate

Six questions on shard keys, hot accounts, replay protection, asynchronous side effects, reporting isolation, and why business-day boundaries still matter at scale.

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Why do banks often shard payment workloads by account or ledger key instead of spraying writes randomly across nodes?

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