Category: Engineering
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- Engineering
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Cloudbleed
We use Cloudflare for DDoS mitigation and certain other benefits it offers. Like millions of websites that rely on Cloudflare, we are also susceptible to #Cloudbleed. Ever since the details emerged from Clourdflare, we have started our analysis of impact this may have on our services. So far these are our observations: We have received […]
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- Engineering
- 4 min
SecureShield: Campaign for Secure Transactions
As Indians, we are desensitized to certain social evils. Corruption. Dowry. Black Money. We see them often, and yet we may not really process them, until they injure us or our loved ones directly. I feel there’s another social evil, one that’s heavily hushed and downplayed by the industry and media: terrible practices in electronic […]
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- Engineering
- 8 min
Today, Payments are generally insecure
Have you ever been asked by a waiter at a restaurant for your card PIN? Has he ever written it down on a piece of paper? Have you ever noticed a CCTV camera watching you enter the PIN at a shop? Have you ever used an app to buy something, and got redirected to your […]
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- Engineering
- 6 min
Digital Meal Vouchers
Maintaining an account of some value and supporting debits and credits on that account is an elementary exercise that a computer science student picks up in a Database course. Hundreds of accounting systems have been built across the world with about as many different implementations of these basic rules, and a proposal for a brand […]
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- Engineering
- 4 min
Cipher CIAM for a reasonably complex enterprise AAAC scenario
Cipher is Zeta’s mobile-first advanced Access Control Server (ACS) that offers seamless and secure payments with best-in-class success rates. Superior integration, risk-based authentication, and superior OTP experience guarantee increased customer stickiness and higher profits. Cipher also offers powerful APIs, advanced SDKs, and innovative features like Swipe2Pay and SuperPIN to provide an unparalleled payment experience. Cipher does not […]
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- Engineering
- 3 min
Fund Collection Service
The fund collection service was built out to solve a problem in Rubix, the Integrated Business Travel and Expense Management product developed at Zeta. The problem can be described as follows: We needed to issue some funds into the fusion funding account of the company. For doing this, the company has to deposit the respective amount into […]
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- Engineering
- 4 min
Wallet 2.0
Wallets are the most basic thing a person has had since early times. We needed something to put our money in clusters for our daily utilities, one cannot access an ATM for every single time of purchase. Now, a digital version of it came called e-wallet, which can provide aggregation capability for payment-related instruments for […]
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- Engineering
- 4 min
Cipher Tuning for 1M TPS in Online Auth – Part 2
We went through the overall idea behind the demo in Part 1. Part 2 will inform us about how we achieved the feat, highlighting the technologies that we used along the way. Heads up, it is going to be engineering focussed. Quick recap: Cipher demonstrated the successful handling of a chart-busting 1 Million Transactions Per Second of online […]
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- Engineering
- 4 min
Achieving 1 Million TPS with Zeta’s Cipher – A new benchmark in the Payments Industry (Part 1)
Introduction We marked 22nd Jan 2020 as a historical day of significance for Zeta and the future of payments! We were able to successfully showcase 1 Million Transactions per Second (1M TPS), illustrating the scalability and elasticity with which banks can handle online transactions. Background In December 2019, we launched Cipher, a cloud-based Authentication as a […]
