Billing
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Engineering and Operations in the Bell System bitsavers.trailing-edge.com
Starting at page #445, the "10.5 Billing Equipment and Systems" section describe the history and technical evolutions of Bell's phone calls metering and pricing.
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KYC and AML: beyond the acronyms bitsaboutmoney.com
KYC is nuanced and fuzzy, because it is a stochastic process to reduce risk.
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Swift Codes bank.codes
Swift / BIC codes for personal use only.
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Reconciliation: A game designed to frustrate the player bam.kalzumeus.com
“Reconciliation is a business process which arises almost entirely because of a lack of structured data in the pipelines that convey money between businesses”. There are some hack to streamline the process, like adding an arbitrary discount to produce unique trailing decimals…
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Raising Prices is Hard backblaze.com
Backblaze post-mortem on raising prices on their main offer. They wanted to create an extension program based on credit system. This became a full-time job for a handful of their most senior engineers, and resulted in a six month project.
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AWS Cost Management announcements aws.amazon.com
The source of all new features added to the billing perimeter.
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Global VAT & GST on digital services avalara.com
List of countries requiring application of taxes on foreign provided online services.
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“The key idea of our algorithms is to use pricing signal to regulate user demand. One may argue that such an algorithm gives poor service to the user as it pushes tasks out of the queue in order to maximize cloud broker's profit.”
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Detecting fraudulent activity in a cloud using privacy-friendly data aggregates arxiv.org
Discusses a method to detect fraudulent activity (launching DDoS attacks, Bitcoin mining, …) by using non-intrusive, privacy-friendly data: billing data.
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Integer percentages as electoral falsification fingerprints arxiv.org
In the same spirit as above, this paper show that frequency of reported round numbers in election is a signal of man-made anomalies. Might be applicable in some fraud-fighting area.
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5 things I learned while developing a billing system arnon.dk
A great introduction on all the various aspects of a billing system, from currency to invoices, including great illustrations on the logic of changing plans. All these topics are detailed in dedicated sections below.
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Axial - Business models archive.ph
38 models for inspiration.
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Graphic methods for presenting facts archive.org
A way to optimize pricing using a physical model made in plaster of Paris, from 1914.
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The Soul of an Old Machine: Revisiting the Timeless von Neumann Architecture ankush.dev
Floats were suspicious even before the first general-purpose computer (EDVAC) was built: “Von Neumann wasn't entirely sold on why we might need floating-point numbers. He was quite vocal in his critique of floating-point numbers.” The author of this article complement this…
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A Rake Too Far: Optimal Platform Pricing Strategy abovethecrowd.com
A bit of vocabulary: “In a casino, the term rake refers to the commission that the house earns for operating a poker game. (…) While casinos use the term rake, a plethora of interesting word choices exist which all describe the same thing – keeping a little bit of the revenue…
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16 Startup Metrics a16z.com
The 2 critical metrics being Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC) and Customer Lifetime Value (CLV).
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CUDs vs. Commit Contracts vs. SUDs in Google Cloud 66degrees.com
Explains the differences between various types of discounts and usage commitments in GCP.
