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Notes from thebuild.
Product decisions, engineering lessons, and stories from nineteen years of building Sparrow SMS, Khalti, and Picovico.
PlaceholderFifteen years of Sparrow SMS: what keeps a messaging platform reliable
A look back at how Sparrow SMS has stayed up through Nepal’s biggest traffic spikes, and the infrastructure decisions that made it possible.
Read articlePlaceholderDesigning Khalti for someone opening a digital wallet for the first time
Millions of Khalti users are also first-time users of any digital payment product. Here is how that shapes our design choices.
Read articlePlaceholderHow Picovico closes the cash leakage gap for South Asian multiplexes
Picovico is an all-in-one cinema management and Point of Sale platform. Here is what it actually takes to eliminate operational bottlenecks at the box office.
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