From a Broken Payment Flow to a Resilient Registration System: What I Learned Building Zeron Academy Payments from Scratch

This article is a walkthrough of what happened when nobody watching, what broke, how I investigated it, how I redesigned the deployment process, why Razorpay became a problem, why I moved to Cashfree, and finally how I built a manual QR fallback so that payment-provider problems can no longer block student registrations.
What is a VPC Endpoint in AWS?

A VPC Endpoint is a service that allows you to privately connect your Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) to supported AWS services without using: This means your traffic never leaves the AWS network, which: VPC endpoints are powered by AWS PrivateLink (for interface endpoints), enabling secure and private communication between services. How VPC Endpoint Works Explanation […]