Ecommerce
Transfer-based payment continues to grow as a share of online checkout in Nigeria.
Lower failure rates than cards for many banks, no card details to share, and familiarity. For a sizeable segment it is simply the default way to pay.
Confirmation is asynchronous. Your checkout must handle a pending state properly and reconcile the webhook when it arrives, rather than assuming payment completes inline.
West African connectivity depends on a small number of submarine cables. When one is damaged, the effects are immediate and the re…
A visible number of companies have moved workloads back from public cloud. The reasoning is more nuanced than "cloud is expensive"…
Major platforms now offer passkeys by default, and the underlying idea removes the attack that causes most account compromises.
Encryption is no longer the main threat. Increasingly, attackers copy data and threaten publication.
Several widely used projects have moved to restrictive licences, and downstream users have had to react.
The tooling has shifted from suggesting the next line to executing multi-step tasks across a codebase.
