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Fly.io solves usage-based billing challenges with Metronome

by templaedhel on 10/29/24, 3:51 PM with 3 comments

• by smartgrub on 10/29/24, 4:16 PM

  Really appreciate the insight into the challenges of usage-based billing. It’s great to see Fly and Metronome being open about how complex pricing can get with variables like regions, machine types, and bandwidth.

• by bananamuffins on 10/29/24, 4:14 PM

  "Pricing migrations are like the worst version of data migration, and there’s money associated with it!"

  felt this on a deep level as someone who's worked on billing. good read on how fly.io has been approaching it.

• by shwin on 10/29/24, 4:03 PM

  billing is one of those things that I realize is deeper and more complicated every time you talk to somebody who thinks about it for their job; usage based pricing makes it even more so, interesting to read about how companies are adapting to that