Building a Ledger System - Chapter 5: Data Quality & Best Practices
This is the final chapter in our five-part series on building production-ready ledger systems. In the previous chapters, we covered foundations, transaction lifecycles, advanced topics, and production operations. Now we’ll focus on keeping your ledger healthy with continuous data quality checks and handling unsettled funds with holding accounts. Improvements: Continuous Data Quality Checks The worst time to discover a ledger bug is when your accountant asks why the trial balance doesn’t match. Data quality checks catch problems before they become disasters. ...