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## Your Platform Is a Matrix: How to Get From O(B x P) to O(B + P)

DevFeed: [Your Platform Is a Matrix: How to Get From O(B x P) to O(B + P)](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/your-platform-is-a-matrix-how-to-get-from-o-b-p-to-o-b-p-63685.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://hackernoon.com/your-platform-is-a-matrix-how-to-get-from-ob-p-to-ob-p?source=rss>)

Author: Shaleen Mathur

Published: 2026-10-01T19:35:13Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [HackerNoon](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/hackernoon.md>)

Topics: [engineering-leadership](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/engineering-leadership.md>), [Deployment-Driven Development](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/deployment-driven-development.md>), [Self-organizing Team](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/self-organizing-team.md>)

Tags: [architecture](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/architecture.md>), [article](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/article.md>), [coupling](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/coupling.md>), [decoupling](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/decoupling.md>), [devops](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/devops.md>), [engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/engineering.md>), [hackernoon-top-story](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/hackernoon-top-story.md>), [matrix](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/matrix.md>), [obp](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/obp.md>), [platform-matrix](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/platform-matrix.md>), [scalability](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/scalability.md>), [software-architecture](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/software-architecture.md>), [system-design](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/system-design.md>), [systems](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/systems.md>)

### AI overview

The article explains how payment and business accounting systems can become tightly coupled as a platform grows, creating integration work that scales with every pairing. It recommends a small handoff contract and behavioral classification so each domain owns its own logic, with new payment methods or businesses requiring changes only on their respective side.

### Source excerpt

The article discusses the challenges of building scalable platforms by avoiding the "matrix" problem, where two growing systems become tightly coupled and require significant integration efforts. This is often caused by a shared API or abstraction layer that carries knowledge from both domains, leading to a multiplication of integration costs.