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Architecture principles

Orb’s architecture is built with the following principles in mind:

1. Accurate and auditable: Orb gives you the visibility to trace how each event contributes to your billing process. The platform is designed to be resilient to failure scenarios through the use of audit-safe amendments.
2. Built for real time scale: Orb’s event-based APIs, such as event ingestion, are designed to handle extremely high throughput and scale with concurrent load. Orb also provides a real-time event balance and a highly performant webhooks architecture.
3. Flexibility at the forefront: Orb places a core focus on the extensibility of the platform, providing a custom SQL metrics layer and a custom pricing platform.

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Integrating with Orb

Orb is designed to be quick to integrate, with an available sandbox to test the platform’s functionality. The overall structure of the integration involves:

• Ingesting events and building your metrics. With these pieces in place, Orb can consume an event stream and automatically keep usage quantities up to date.
• Setting up your plans and pricing in a product catalog. This step associates your metrics with your business motion and pricing model.
• Provisioning subscriptions for each of your customers, so you can track usage in real time. Tracking the subscription lifecycle and accrued usage through Orb gives you a better window into account health and creates new opportunities for revenue growth.
• Configuring invoicing and payment, which allows Orb to automatically process charges and issue invoices on your behalf. This eliminates manual data entry and streamlines communication with your customers.