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I've worked on telco billing systems in the past and the generally accepted metric in the industry is 70% of billing systems projects fail. Not fail as in "did not completely meet requirements or expectations", fail as in "did not deliver anything whatsoever".
People tend to get pissy about money. Almost as much as water plant scada systems and railway safety. Maybe moreso.
And if you're dealing with money, you're already inherently doing cloud stuff, because you're talking to the payment services, plus you already by definition have money to pay for a real billing system...
It seems as crazy as people on r/wallstreetbets advising their parents on how to put their retirement money into hand picked stocks or something.
How about accounting, would anyone recommend a modern open source accounting system that would be better than in-house?
Not necessarily open source, but there are a lot of third party tools for accounting (netsuite, quickbooks, xero). And I would say they scale 100x better than an in house tool
I’ve found Temporal and Xstate are helpful at building a reliable billing system
Could you explain how? I know temporal has not built the billing engine themselves, so wondering how the tool can help with this..