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Edge Metered Billing

1 post · Feb 2025 – Jun 2025

What this trail covers

This post continues the evolution of Stripe's development of scalable metered billing systems, focusing on handling massive event volumes at the edge. It details how to build serverless usage notification systems using AWS services integrated with Stripe's pay-as-you-go plans. This enables the creation of streamlined and easy-to-manage notification systems with minimal coding, building upon previous efforts in edge event processing and resilient webhook handling.

All Stripe trails
  1. Implementing scalable metered billing with Stripe: How Edgee handles billions of eventsThis post details how Edgee, a company focused on edge computing and WebAssembly, implemented a scalable metered billing system. It describes their architecture for processing billions of events across over 100 global edge locations, leveraging Stripe's metering and billing APIs. The post highlights the challenges of data loss in web analytics and how their system ensures robust usage tracking, focusing on the technical implementation at the edge.
  2. Building serverless usage notification with AWSThis post details the technical implementation of building serverless usage notification systems using AWS Lambda, CloudWatch Events, and SNS, integrated with Stripe's billing and customer consumption data. It outlines the architecture for triggering notifications based on usage thresholds for pay-as-you-go plans, focusing on event-driven processing and minimal coding for a robust notification system.