Why Building Billing Systems is So Painful
@dalexeenko|August 19, 2024 (12m ago)778 views#What is billing
Billing might seem like a straightforward concept at first glance. When I talk about billing to friends, most of them bring up their monthly subscriptions, whether it's Netflix, Spotify, ChatGPT or something similar. How hard can it be to engineer a system to support this? After all, all you need to do is to charge a customer a fixed amount each month. You can probably set up a cron job to do that. Done. However, as any seasoned engi...
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