Scrypted is under appreciated. Getting the AppleTV to do facial recognition against your photos app, and then storing clips for free in iCloud is magical.

It’s the only cloud-based camera storage solution I trust.

I run Matrix on my ARM instance there. It works perfectly for that.

“Payments Systems in the U.S.“ is a book that is a decent introduction into everything involved.

Is this something you even have the power to do at your company? Often times larger companies will negotiate special contracts with stripe. If you do have the power, there are alternatives to Stripe with lower fees, but they aren’t as nice as stripe to work with.