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I’ve been working on mortgage software for a few years now, and there is one thing I still find a little funny. A mortgage loan sounds like a pretty straightforward thing. Someone wants to borrow money to buy a house. The lender checks the borrower, checks the property, calculates some numbers, generates some documents, and … Read more

For the past year, I’ve been working on something that sounds simple when you describe it in one sentence: Migrating a Loan Origination System from ICE Encompass to Vesta. Of course, anyone who has actually worked on a mortgage system knows that “migration” is one of those words that can mean anything from “copy some … Read more

Building an Asynchronous Retry System There is a particular kind of software problem that doesn’t look very complicated at first. You save something. The system says no. You try again. It says no again. You wait. You try again. Still no. Eventually, you realize the problem isn’t really your code. Someone has the loan locked. … Read more

Sometimes the hardest production bugs are the ones that make absolutely no sense. Nothing in the business logic has changed.The same Encompass SDK is being used.The same loan is being updated. And yet, somehow, the result is different. This was one of those bugs. A 10-Year-Old Mortgage System The system I work on is a … Read more