Design metering for usage-based pricing: billions of usage events become invoices customers dispute line by line.

A disputed invoice needs a reproducible calculation. Retain raw usage events and versioned pricing so each line can be explained and corrected.

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A disputed invoice needs a reproducible calculation. Retain raw usage events and versioned pricing so each line can be explained and corrected.

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