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Balanced Blog
blog.balancedpayments.com · Company blog · on HN since 2012
Balanced was a payments startup for marketplaces whose blog covered engineering practice, testing, deployment, and company transparency.
What HN saysHN commenters remember it fondly for its posts on automated testing, continuous deployment and status pages, and discuss its open-company approach after it shut down.
22HN people shared it
8linked it in comments
43stories submitted
1.3Kstory points
9 years agolast shared
2012people per year2026
Most-shared posts
- 1Introducing: Balanced Same-Day Payouts4 people · 9 points · first shared 2013 · discussion on HN
- 2How Balanced Does Database Migrations With Zero Downtime3 people · 134 points · first shared 2013 · 60 comments on HN
- 3Why Stashboard and Pingdom Weren't Enough: The Evolution of a Status Page3 people · 66 points · first shared 2012 · 19 comments on HN
- 4How Balanced Automates Testing and Continuously Deploys3 people · 51 points · first shared 2013 · 35 comments on HN
- 5TDD your API2 people · 148 points · first shared 2014 · 50 comments on HN
- 6Nothing is certain, except death and taxes .. and chargebacks2 people · 141 points · first shared 2013 · 68 comments on HN
- 7Balanced Makes Volume Pricing Public2 people · 85 points · first shared 2014 · 42 comments on HN
- 8Getting Started with Ember.js2 people · 76 points · first shared 2013 · 25 comments on HN
- 9Announcing Balanced Payouts (YC W11)2 people · 69 points · first shared 2013 · 24 comments on HN
- 10On Rebranding: The Evolution of a Startup Identity2 people · 26 points · first shared 2013 · 3 comments on HN
- 11Balanced, Social Engineering & Fraud: How we got fooled2 people · 17 points · first shared 2013 · 6 comments on HN
- 12Balanced will be shutting down in 90 days2 people · 4 points · first shared 2015 · discussion on HN
- 13RESTful, white-label ACH API by Balanced (YC W11)2 people · 2 points · first shared 2013 · discussion on HN
- 14Benefits open company balanced2 people · first shared 2013
- 15Balanced's Architecture1 people · 105 points · first shared 2014 · 33 comments on HN
What HN people wrote when they linked it
rl3 · 2018-04-12
Balanced, perhaps:
http://blog.balancedpayments.com/benefits-open-company-balanced/
Whether or not that had anything to do with their demise, I couldn't yell you. Fantastic company though.
dvirsky · 2015-03-13
That's sad. I haven't used their product but I remember them fondly for their excellent blog post about their rigorous unit testing and continuous deployment methodology.
http://blog.balancedpayments.com/balanced-payments-operations-automate…
steveklabnik · 2014-03-07
Thank you, they took forever to draw... My handwriting is terrible.
We wrote about logging here: http://blog.balancedpayments.com/status-page/
> We already log these to a centralized server using RSYSLOG, so I already had
> a data source to draw from. Next, I went and brewed a fresh pot of coffee and
> bestowed it upon bninja for his prescient work in building our log parser,
> Slurp. We wrote a quick Slurp script that read the HTTP status code from each
> request and then fed them into Graphite buckets. Each bucket was based on
> service name (DASHBOARD, API, JS) and then response code family (2xx, 3xx,
> 4xx, 5xx, and a special case timeout for slow requests).
If infrastructure stuff is interesting to you, you may want to check out https://github.com/balanced/balanced-infra . If there's interest, I might blog about it in the future.
jareau · 2013-10-11
Thanks, Taylor. This is for you: http://blog.balancedpayments.com/benefits-open-company-balanced/
Thanks for helping make Balanced better
johne20 · 2013-06-05
I originally thought the same too, but found that it is in Beta. http://blog.balancedpayments.com/balanced-payment-method-pay-with-bank…
solarkennedy · 2013-03-21
Here is some bash kinda:
curl -s http://blog.balancedpayments.com/balanced-payments-operations-automate… | html2text | grep -P '[^.*]=$' | head -n 1 | base64 -d | sed 's/../0x& /g' | xxd -r -c 100 | rev
zende · 2013-02-25
We put a lot of work into this release. This covers about 15% of bank accounts. Here's more information on the blog post: http://blog.balancedpayments.com/introducing-balanced-same-day-payouts…