ACME-3019: Story for Billing Service reliability improvement 19
Date: 2025-12-17 Type: Story Priority: P1 Service: Billing Service Owner: Revenue Platform GitHub References: GH-3019, GH-3020 API References: API-BILLING-01, API-BILLING-02, API-BILLING-03, API-BILLING-04
Business Context
Acme Commerce depends on the Billing Service to protect customer trust during high-volume shopping periods. This ticket captures engineering work needed after operational reviews found risk from retry amplification after a transient dependency timeout.
Scope
- Review service contract behavior against API-BILLING-04.
- Update dashboards and alerts owned by Revenue Platform.
- Coordinate rollout with the teams that operate Authentication Service, Checkout Service, Billing Service, Inventory Service, and Notification Service.
- Link implementation work to GitHub items GH-3019, GH-3020.
Definition of Done
- Tests cover nominal, timeout, replay, and malformed payload scenarios.
- Runbook steps are updated and validated in staging.
- Incident review owners can cite this ticket as remediation evidence.