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Re:UPI: Anatomy of a Payment Transaction on Sunday July 12, 2026 @04:25AM (#48879380)
Thanks for the kind feedback.

I am not very familiar with the PromptPay architecture, but a quick search reveals that the user-facing app for QR scanning is bank-owned, rather than a Third-Party Application Provider (TPAP) like Google Pay is for UPI. In the case of UPI, you can link multiple accounts from the same or different banks to a single TPAP.

Another potential difference is the interbank protocol implementation. For UPI, the messages involved in a transaction are asynchronous. When NPCI calls the remitter bank for a debit request (ReqPay message), the bank is only supposed to send back an acknowledgement message (Ack) in the same HTTP request. Once the processing is done, the bank's switch sends a response (RespPay message) to a callback endpoint at NPCI (which, in turn, returns an Ack to the remitter bank). A similar flow happens when NPCI sends a request to the beneficiary bank for credit.

Re:UPI: Anatomy of a Payment Transaction on Sunday July 12, 2026 @12:36AM (#48878296)
Thanks for the feedback! I will try to make it clearer.
Re:Show HN: UI for Apache Kafka on Saturday October 02, 2021 @01:08AM (#28726127)
The UI looks great. I wanted to try it but am unable to run it in mac with m1 chip. Is there a docker image for arm based processors as well?
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