Open source has always been a big part of my career. I worked and maintained multiple Node.js libraries, joined the Node.js Diagnostics WG, and am now building OpenMeter. So I'm probably biased, but I think we reached a new inflection point with open source. The infrastructure layer, coding languages, and frameworks are all de facto open - what's next? Services that help teams build...
AI is transforming software engineering, and many people wonder if developer jobs are going away or just changing. Here are my two cents:For context, my journey as a developer over the years followed the path of many others: during university, I started as an intern in Eastern Europe at a small company, 100% of my time writing code, and later became a staff engineer at big tech (Netflix,...
Hi HN, at OpenMeter, we switched to using ClickHouse as our database to pre-aggregate and query usage.Additionally, our initial choice of the streaming processor, ksqlDB, revealed limitations when scaling for small to medium-sized producers. The constraint was around ksqlDB's limited capacity to run persisted queries per instance (20 on Confluent Cloud) and its lack of support for...
I recently looked into how to build out robust usage reporting with Stripe. This comes basically from the set of challenges around:- Workaround Stripe API Rate Limits- Handle billing cycles and minimize usage drift into the next billing cycle- Deliver usage exactly once to avoid under and over-billing- Stripe requires to report usage on Subscription ItemsYou can read the full blog post...
I'm researching the best ways to collect the execution duration of containers/serverless workloads for billing and chargeback use cases. Per second granularity, like AWS CPU-Hours. I'm finding that most engineers' journeys start with listening to start/stop events and calculating the delta between those lifecycle events. But over time, they find it challenging to handle lost events or...
But yes I agree, it's more challenging to build in open but I think it benefits the customer, the quality has to be there.
Btw how do you handle idempotency with time series? I think replays and least-once delivery in distributed systems can be challenging around usage collection if you don't have a key to deduplicate by.
Would you track API calls by default like a usage-based third-party (OpenAI API, Twilio, etc.)? Or your own web server (Lambda, Next.js etc)? Or both.
Hi HN! I’m Peter, the co-founder of OpenMeter (http://openmeter.io). We are building an open-source project to help engineers to meter and attribute AI and compute usage for billing and analytics use cases. Our GitHub is at https://github.com/openmeterio/openmeter, and there’s a demo video here: https://www.loom.com/share/bc1cfa1b7ed94e65bd3a82f9f0334d04.Why? Companies are increasingly adopting...