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Why not batch process billing every hour or 30 minutes? That way you can run simple checks to look for anomalies.
by brador 13y ago
Why not batch process billing every hour or 30 minutes? That way you can run simple checks to look for anomalies.
- RobSpectre 13y agoIt's a good question. As our service is delivered through a utility pricing model, most of our API requests are billing events - each call, text message or recording ends up having a debit to the account balance associated with it. As you can imagine then, our auto-recharge feature could be called any moment to make sure the balance doesn't run out. That said, we do have the monitoring you describe in place which is how we were alerted to the incident and limited the damage to 1.4% of the account base.