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- Platform Engineering3 min read
VIES is free and unreliable. Compliance can't be built on the free part alone.
The EU's VAT validation service is a government endpoint with no fallback of its own. What it takes to turn it into something a business can depend on for reverse-charge compliance.
- Platform Engineering3 min read
Why billing runs as its own service, not a module
Isolating billing behind its own database, its own Stripe integration and an internally authenticated boundary — so a billing-provider outage degrades checkout, not the product itself.