The Webhook That Said Everything Was Fine
If a Discord bot takes your money, you should get to see how its billing breaks. This is the postmortem of the July incident where every Stripe webhook handler in Loracle started throwing on its first line, our own endpoint told Stripe everything was fine anyway, and the only evidence in the entire system was a single telemetry event whose error string was one word: get. Nothing about this failure is exotic. It is three ordinary decisions, each defensible on the day it was made, that interlocked into silent data loss. If you run a service that charges people, there is a decent chance you have all three in production right now. Here is how to check. ...