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Open source has always been a big part of my career. I worked and maintained multiple Node.js libraries, joined the Node.js Diagnostics WG, and am now building OpenMeter. So I'm pr…

Exactly! And as the boundaries between specializations like backend, frontend, embedded, and data science are going away, developers can express their creativity on an entirely new…

AI is transforming software engineering, and many people wonder if developer jobs are going away or just changing. Here are my two cents: For context, my journey as a developer ove…

You can check https://openmeter.io for usage metering and billing.

https://openmeter.io with Stripe. also available OSS: https://github.com/openmeterio/openmeter

I wrote an article this year about how to setup UBP with Stripe. I hope it helps: https://openmeter.io/blog/implementing-usage-based-pricing-w...

This is a great insight; thanks for sharing!

Hi HN, at OpenMeter, we switched to using ClickHouse as our database to pre-aggregate and query usage. Additionally, our initial choice of the streaming processor, ksqlDB, revealed…

I recently looked into how to build out robust usage reporting with Stripe. This comes basically from the set of challenges around: - Workaround Stripe API Rate Limits - Handle bil…

I'm researching the best ways to collect the execution duration of containers/serverless workloads for billing and chargeback use cases. Per second granularity, like AWS CPU-Hours.…

In the meantime, we looked more into metering and metrics and shared some thoughts here: Usage Data: Auditable or Operational https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36616364

Internal usage is basically Cloud Unit Economics: https://www.finops.org/wg/introduction-cloud-unit-economics You treat infra teams as providers and price-in their services. For ex…

Very cool, thanks for sharing. I like this reporting approach, once you have the usage data aggregated somewhere a state machine is a great way to report usage to Stripe. Do you tr…

I think it's substantial risk for the core business. To be able to glue usage to invoice, Orb has to become the source of truth and billing engine top of Stripe, while Stripe is st…

Thank you for the honest feedback on the landing, appreciate it. Yes, we should make it more informative. Maybe docs is more useful in the meantime: https://openmeter.io/docs

Great question. It has two components for OpenMeter: 1. My personal frustration when I had to do usage-metering at Stripe and wanting to have a standard for it, like how we have it…