8 tips on sending money from China with Wise
Here are our top tips and potential pitfalls when sending money from China* using Wise. This service is provided in partnership with a third party payment...
In August I was on the same flight with Itisam, one of the software engineers in the debit card team. We chatted about what he had been working on and then went on to my user feedback - I had been using the green "Hello World!" debit card exclusively for 2 years going. We talked through a couple of features and how we could go about building them - a DCC warning notification was one of them.
Inspired by the conversation, I went on to research the data we have been seeing about DCC and had a spare weekend coming up, so I thought I could give it a go - to build it myself.
I'm not a software engineer, not for any practical purposes. Yet I've been always curious how they do it, so I had a pretty good overview already of how the systems hang together. The way to set up the feature was to add a new spring boot micro service, which does the following:
It was nice to try out different bits of technical infrastructure I could use for the purpose.
At the end of the day my service was only a couple of hundred lines of code. It didn't get done in the first weekend, it took a few more Saturdays and evenings over 4 weeks.
Coding is pretty far from my day job and I won't be good at it, but I learned a lot in the process. Someone told me you're going to be a pretty poor dairy farmer, if you never try to milk the cow.
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