Answering questions like "what was the maximum number of concurrent sessions per account between these two dates" with a SQL query is interesting. Making it perform properly adds a layer of fun.
Basically business logic isn't logical.
So is running a website apparently.
Oh. You don’t say?
Continues to say billing is “tough”, but this text seems aimed to wrap it all up in one blog post.
This reads like what you write to convince a small business to hire you as an independent contractor to do their website—sympathize to the emotional pain, then write a survey of challenges to convey knowledge and competence.
Something is still missing as a marketing piece. First, what’s the context—compared to what? Second, this reads like a rational discussion of complexity, but not of difficulty. So what is the author’s challenge? Write the whole code base? Integrate different solutions? What can’t be done with time and diligence?
Not for nothing, this is a timely topic for me. I was chatting with someone about outside service versus custom built solutions. This reads like someone I might be asked to consider to hire, but this isn’t the text that makes me interested to learn more.
Is a classic LLM trope (probably picked up from leading-on twitter slop that go 1/n 2/n,...)
What's this fraction series represent--converging on n/n (assuming there actually is a definition of n)?
People welcomed "unlimited calls with $X a month!" as a liberating innovation, but the truth was that the phone company was saving a ton of money -- and had priced them so that they were making even more by the vast majority of their customers.
I dread working on this.
