Inside Atlassian’s Forge Billing Architecture for Distributed Usage Tracking at Scale

Leela Kumili — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 14:21:00 GMT

Atlassian details the Forge billing platform built for usage-based pricing across its cloud ecosystem. It processes large-scale usage events with correct attribution, deduplication, and aggregation using a streaming pipeline, idempotent processing, and layered storage to enable accurate billing, near real-time visibility, and reliable reconciliation across distributed services.

By Leela Kumili

Building and Scaling a Platform with Project-as-a-Service

Ben Linders — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 11:17:00 GMT

When a platform started with total developer autonomy, teams felt overwhelmed and ended up solving the same problems in completely different ways. The company shifted to enablement over support, working together with teams intensively, and helping teams feel confident and capable, turning the right way into being the easiest way.

By Ben Linders

InfoQ - SaaS

Inside Atlassian’s Forge Billing Architecture for Distributed Usage Tracking at Scale

Building and Scaling a Platform with Project-as-a-Service