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candid flame Jan 6, 2022, 7:11 PM

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Hi dred. Are you looking for a way to improve efficiency in your application to record usage? How are you currently doing things?

sage dove Jan 6, 2022, 7:57 PM

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@candid flame sorry for not responding. I am currently in the early development stage of a product and am trying to figure out what the most scalable solution is

river karma Jan 6, 2022, 8:01 PM

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codename_duchess had to step out but I can help you. Can you expand a bit upon what you are trying to decide here scalability-wise?

sage dove Jan 6, 2022, 8:10 PM

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sure. lets say I have a single product, called product x, which has metered billing in monthly periods. Product x represents a service that customers will be able to use on my platform. When a user signs up for the service, I will create a subscription entity and store the subscription_id in my db. Then, every subsequent day that the user is using the service, I want to record usage. So, if I have 1,000 users all using my service every day, I need to record their usage. My initial thought is just to query the db for all active subscriptions and iteratively record usage for each one, but I don't think that will scale so well

sage dove Jan 6, 2022, 8:33 PM

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@river karma did that clarify my question?

river karma Jan 6, 2022, 8:40 PM

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I think so though I am still unsure what alternatives there might be.

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Usage does need to be recorded individually for each

sage dove Jan 6, 2022, 8:41 PM

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alright that's what I thought

river karma Jan 6, 2022, 8:42 PM

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Yeah, unfortunately I don't think there is a part to optimize away here for the Stripe API

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