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Design an idempotent double-entry ledger service

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StripeSystem designLast asked Sep 2026

Design a ledger service that records money movements for merchants as double-entry transactions and answers balance and history queries. Cover the data model, making writes idempotent so a retried request is never recorded twice, keeping balances correct under concurrent writes, and scaling the service as volume grows.

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