4d ago · 9 min read · A team I worked with tried to build their billing system on top of their tracing pipeline. The idea was clean: every operation already generates a span; spans already have duration and attributes; adding user_id and billable_units to each span lets f...
Join discussionApr 13 · 8 min read · Keeping your application's internal data consistent with a third-party service is one of the classic challenges in modern software development. This is especially true for critical systems like billing. When your subscription plans are managed by a s...
Join discussionMar 29 · 12 min read · Spry with Stripe: Payment Processing for SaaS Applications Estimated reading time: 20–30 minutes Introduction Payment processing is a critical component of any SaaS application. Stripe has become the industry standard for online payments, offering a ...
Join discussionMar 25 · 12 min read · Spry with Stripe: Payment Processing for SaaS Applications Estimated reading time: 20–30 minutes Introduction Payment processing is a critical component of any SaaS application. Stripe has become the industry standard for online payments, offering a ...
Join discussionMar 25 · 11 min read · When you're building subscription billing with Stripe webhooks, you quickly discover a harsh reality: webhooks can arrive delayed, duplicated, or out of order. For a youth sports stats SaaS platform I'm building, this created a critical problem—plan ...
Join discussionMar 10 · 5 min read · You launch your AI API. Usage starts climbing. Customers integrate your endpoint into their workflows—and suddenly your infrastructure is processing thousands, then millions, of requests. Then you loo
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Mar 3 · 7 min read · TL;DR If your SaaS (Software as a Service) product charges based on usage—API (Application Programming Interface) calls, compute hours, data throughput, and transactions—there's a gap between when cus
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