A Product Manager's Reflection on Building a Chargebacks Feature and Defining an Ambiguous Role
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A product professional reflects on the challenges of defining their role in the tech industry, sharing their experience implementing a Chargebacks feature that attributes invoice usage to specific Kafka topics, Tableflow tables, or Schema Registry subjects. The article explores the ambiguity of product management and the practical realities of building technical features without being a software engineer by trade.
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I am not a software engineer, and while I've dabbled in the dark arts from time to time, I have never been paid to write code.
I implemented a new Chargebacks feature that exposes approximately how much of an invoice's usage is attributable to a given Kafka topic, Tableflow table, or Schema Registry subject.
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