😵💫 Why billing systems are a nightmare for engineers
www.getlago.com/blog/why-billing-systems-are-a-nightmare-for-engineers
What Jamie wrote
Billing systems are the kind of thing we often call an Iceberg Problem. You see this big huge floating chunk of ice on the top, and sort of forget that there is a giant bunch of ice many times bigger underneath it. Said another way, there are an incredible number of edge cases in problems like this. Developers that are less experienced will think these are simple, and just charge into it. Folks that have built and maintained systems like these know that "here be dragons."