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How Uber tests payments in production
Well-run payment systems are developed by engineers who understand what is the best use of their time: to catch unknown unknowns, and to do it fast.
As soon as you start digging deeper, you’ll notice a big gap between how sandbox behaves and all the surprises that production has for you. Rather than stressing out over a perfect release, Uber has put in place tools to detect production failures as early as possible, and to roll back to a known safe state quickly and easily. Orosz mentions Uber’s internal tools, Cerberus and Deputy, which are responsible for two important tasks when testing in production
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