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On a payments feature our architect wanted a monolithic sync call to 3rd-party gateways for simplicity. I pushed back because we expected 5× volume growth and sync calls risked outages. I organized a short design session, sketched an event-driven alternative with idempotent webhook processing and a Redis-backed job queue, and benchmarked both approaches with a 100k-transaction load test. The team adopted a hybrid: synchronous for low-value flows and async for high-volume paths. That reduced peak timeout incidents from 0.8% to 0.05% and improved throughput by 2.5×. I wrote the migration plan and collaborated with the gateway team to validate retries and idempotency.
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