No. 0141 min read
Change management before DevOps: did billing get the damned records?
Ansible and GitLab helped me cut Sprint deployment errors by 30% and improve release speed by 40%.
#billing-mediation
7 stories about billing-mediation. Newest on top.
No. 0122 min read
Fifty million dollars. Show me the damned rubric.
Twelve vendors, 130 switches, and a $50 million replacement of Sprint's mediation platform.
No. 0112 min read
Reconciliation as a job: where's the damned file?
Fourteen years reconciling Sprint's network records with mediation and billing: finding missing files, repairing damaged CDRs, and accounting for the money.
No. 0091 min read
Fourteen years at five nines. Yes, we patched them.
Fifty servers, fourteen years, 99.999% availability.
No. 0051 min read
130 switches, thousands of rules, and a manual that didn't know
Migrating 130 switches off Marconi CEOS meant translating thousands of billing rules without a usable spec.
No. 0041 min read
Two hundred and fifty percent. Yes, folks, it was Perl.
Sprint's mediation throughput went up 250% with Perl, Oracle SQL, and five processor chains.
No. 0021 min read
Billing mediation: somebody has to find the damned money
Fourteen years between the switch and the bill, finding missing money in binary records.