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Re:Why doesn't Stripe use Stripe Billing? by bombcar on Thursday October 13, 2022 @12:49PM (#33193530)
It makes sense to me - if Twilio undergoes a massive outage, do you want them to be unable to communicate as they try to fix it? So they use Zoom and Slack.
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Re:Why doesn't Stripe use Stripe Billing? by antihero on Thursday October 13, 2022 @12:50PM (#33193545)
Just have that stuff as a backup?
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Re:Why doesn't Stripe use Stripe Billing? by bombcar on Thursday October 13, 2022 @12:53PM (#33193573)
That can also work - but backups that aren't used can atrophy - and market segments could mean that what "works" for the company isn't what the company is selling.

It might be a goal to move everything internal (I believe Google is now using Google Apps internally, but they didn't for awhile, even after other businesses were).

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Re:Why doesn't Stripe use Stripe Billing? by bnt on Thursday October 13, 2022 @01:09PM (#33193787)
Email? “Massive outage” for Twilio would bring down a lot of products, they would have to be back up in minutes.
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Re:Why doesn't Stripe use Stripe Billing? by loriverkutya on Thursday October 13, 2022 @01:01PM (#33193693)
They could use staging. Or the solution they have in place in case they have a video conference system outage while they are fixing their own outage.
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