squbs: A New, Reactive Way for PayPal to Build Applications

Preface

It is not uncommon for services in PayPal to cover 1000 VMs or more. These services make use of very small VMs and produce very low throughput for each VM. At the same time, the large…

Creating a Subscription Service with PayPal (Part 1 of 2): The Billing Plan

This is the first of a two part tutorial on creating a subscription model. Over the next two posts, we will cover everything you’ll need to get started with subscriptions using the PayPal REST APIs:

Creating a Subscription Service with PayPal (Part 2 of 2): The Billing Agreement

This is part 2 of creating a subscription service. This second step to creating a subscription for a user is to create and execute a billing agreement, based on an existing activated billing…

Processing a Credit Card Payment with a Vaulted Card

In this tutorial, we’ll be looking at a Node example to show how to store a credit card using the PayPal vault, then reference that stored credit card to process a credit card transaction for a user.

squbs: packaging and deployment instructions to run on AWS nodes

Overview

This page describes a quick way to package, deploy, and start a squbs application. This guide uses Amazon EC2 as an example, showing how to run a squbs application in a few…