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Yeah, I don't disagree. There are a small number of "actually difficult" problems but the vast majority are run-of-the-mill.

For example when presenting an invoice, you end up needing to be able to access just about any part of the system. In telco you need the invoice, line items, past payments, CDRs, entitlement, pre-paid, ...

Without a global data model this becomes really complicated. It's not hard (we settled on GraphQL), but it ends up being big. And it needs to be pretty fast, too.



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