11 articles tagged Mobiledev
PAPSS and mobile money: where integration breaks
Why cross-border PAPSS and mobile money integrations break: hold-and-resolve state machines, identifier resolution, and pending-set reconciliation.
19 min read · 4 November 2026
Mobile money agents: when M-Pesa API fails
Mobile money APIs return pending, then settle asynchronously. Learn to poll, deduplicate callbacks, and reconcile orphaned transactions.
14 min read · 18 September 2026
Currency switch fails in Ghana: one config file to rule…
Mobile money providers put currency codes in different places. Learn a deterministic extraction, validation, and normalization pipeline that stops silent fallbacks.
13 min read · 13 August 2026
Offline-first money apps with DynamoDB Streams
Design an offline-first mobile-money sync pipeline on DynamoDB Streams: idempotency keys, conditional balance writes, DLQ handling, and how to measure it.
15 min read · 8 August 2026
Mobile money agent fees: why your bot keeps failing
USSD session timeouts, not payment errors, break mobile money bots in production. Diagnose the session contract mismatch and fix it with per-request clients.
13 min read · 5 August 2026
Fintech features break in Ghana: the real fix
Why fintech features pass sandbox tests in one African market and fail in another, plus how to instrument, diagnose and fix hidden regional dependencies.
13 min read · 18 July 2026
Show real work, not AI clones
A hiring-focused guide to portfolio projects that demonstrate retry logic, circuit breakers, latency percentiles and honest post-mortems for unreliable networks.
18 min read · 29 June 2026
Bank APIs broke under African 2G
Why aggressive caching and remote idempotency stores fail on flaky 2G/3G links, and how to instrument, measure, and redesign balance endpoints for it.
14 min read · 28 June 2026
Skip M-Pesa: build one API for 3 African markets
How to serve three African mobile-money markets through one orchestrator plus thin provider adapters, with metrics and reconciliation that hold up.
15 min read · 14 June 2026
Reconciling mobile money: edge cases banks ignore
Why provider webhooks are only approximate signals, and how to reconcile them against MNO ledgers with tolerance windows, dedup keys and batch jobs.
17 min read · 12 June 2026
Designing USSD fintech flows that survive live networks
A practical guide to building reliable USSD fintech flows on AWS: state machines, 160-character screens, carrier SLAs, idempotency, and latency instrumentation.
17 min read · 11 June 2026