Business
1,528 items in 12 lists
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GCP improved account management policies to better support customers cloudplatform.googleblog.com
Or why relying too much on fraud automation might lead to disgruntled users.
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Cloudorado cloudorado.com
💸 A comparison matrix which use ECU (Amazon's vCPU) as a CPU power measure unit. Operated by Cloudorado as a commercial cloud-comparison product.
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GCP Product Catalog cloud.google.com
All GCP SKUs available as an API.
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More choice, less complexity: New Compute Engine pricing options on tap cloud.google.com
A wrap-up of recent GCP pricing features.
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GCP billing release notes cloud.google.com
Latest changes of GCP billing features.
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GCP Cost Forecast cloud.google.com
An example of consumption trend line for resource consumption.
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Some credit and debit card companies have "updating service" that allows new account numbers and expiry dates to be shared with merchants. Visa's implementation is called VAU and Mastercard's is ABU.
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Which has a higher conversion rate: A single long ecommerce checkout form or a multi-step one? capitalandgrowth.org
Focus first on other things in the cart, like easing anxiety and second-guessing by adding reassurance (trust marks, testimonials) near the credit card and completion steps, as well as some guarantee language that you may have used earlier in the product exploration process.
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How Candy Japan got credit card fraud somewhat under control candyjapan.com
Suggestions involved either warning signals for trying to guess which orders might be fraud, or countermeasures to try to make things harder for the fraudsters.
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The vanished grandeur of accounting bostonglobe.com
Accounting paintings were a significant genre in Dutch art.
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Handling system failures during payment communication blogs.dropbox.com
Dropbox's experience trying to account for an unreliable payment provider.
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Peak Detection in the Python World blog.ytotech.com
Simple way to detect outliers.
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A (shallow) dive into the American banking system blog.yossarian.net
Collection of miscellaneous notes primarily focused on the common cases of routable accounts, i.e. checking and savings.
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UPI 101: The Basics blog.setu.co
“In this article, we will learn about India's Unified Payments Interface. A four-year-old payment scheme that has been accounting for 40-45% of digital payments across India.”
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Cargo cult data science blog.richardweiss.org
“Data science is best viewed as a form of company culture, rather than a set of technologies. However, many firms will try to create that company culture by acquiring data-science technology, rather than working on their culture.”
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Moonpig: a billing system that doesn't suck blog.plover.com
Design decisions behind a billing and accounting system. Key takeaway: some companies still pays by checks; do not use floats; complex customer workflows; date and time issues; mutable data.
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The cup-of-coffee pricing fallacy blog.gingerlime.com
Explains why it is a sloppy analogy.
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Details on Expiring DigitalOcean Credits blog.digitalocean.com
The reason you have to add an time limit on credits: unused ones accounts as liabilities on our balance sheet.
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Digital Ocean's Update on Customer Shutdown Incident blog.digitalocean.com
Aggressively shutting down user servers is good from a business point of view to prevent fraudster abusing free resources, until it's not.
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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.
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Team Topologies: Organizing Business and Technology Teams for Fast Flow goodreads.com
Team Topologies is a practical, step-by-step, adaptive model for organizational design and team interaction based on four fundamental team types and three team interaction patterns.
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Technology Strategy Patterns: Architecture as Strategy goodreads.com
A set of business tools and patterns from an engineering point of view.
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Thinking in Systems goodreads.com
An essential introduction into system thinking. It helps the reader to understand the fundamentals and introduces several system traps and how to overcome them.
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Domain-Driven Design Distilled goodreads.com
An accessible book to learn the main concepts of Domain-Driven Design.
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Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software goodreads.com
Strategic patterns to understand complex domains and how to model them based on the impact on the business competitive advantage.
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Implementing Domain-Driven Design goodreads.com
An implementation approach to DDD from strategic patterns to tactical patterns with code examples.
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Gitpod Strategy gitpod.notion.site
Gitpod purpose, vision, and strategy.
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Flutter in 2022 Strategy flutter.dev
Flutter annual strategy document for 2022.
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FastFlowConf fastflowconf.com
with recorded session on Youtube - FastFlowConf focuses on the approach and methodologies described in Team Topologies
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Emergent Platform and Evolution in Sociotechnical Systems esilva.net
How platforms emerge from business challenges and the different types of teams like enabling and platform teams collaborate with stream-aligned teams to create the space and opportunities for platforms to evolve.
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Architecture Modernization Enabling Teams (AMET) esilva.net
Explains how AMET coordinates and upskills all teams and stakeholders in the modernization initiative.
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Basal Cost of software eferro.net
How the basal cost, composed of direct impact on team capacity of the added complexity and the cost of the development or evolution of other features, affects the existing systems and teams to deliver value.
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Engineering Strategy on Discord discord.gg
Discord community focused on Engineering Strategy.
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Delivering on an Architecture Strategy blog.thepete.net
Describes strategic architectural initiatives, a framework which allowing product peeps and techies to make progress on big technical improvements via aligned autonomy.
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