Dev Tools · 2h ago
Dev Log: Billing, Authorization, and Legacy Fixes
A developer collapsed a SaaS billing model from à-la-carte features to plans-only in four safe phases, avoiding outage. They unified authorization across web, API, and MCP into one permission layer, fixing a bug where MCP could allow actions blocked elsewhere. A legacy Oracle password-sync bug was fixed by routing resets to the correct column.
Meridian48 take
The post's emphasis on eliminating duplicate sources of truth is a solid engineering principle, but the fixes are incremental and specific to one project, not broadly novel.
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