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How We Reset Monthly Quotas Without Race Conditions or Cron Drift

This article was originally published on Jo4 Blog . If you're billing monthly via Stripe or RevenueCat, it's tempting to reset usage quotas inside your webhook handler. The customer pays → invoice fires → you zero out their urlCount . Clean. One source of truth. It works for some customers.

  • Reset monthly quotas without race conditions or cron drift
  • Use Spring Scheduler with 5-minute past midnight UTC cron
  • Instance-level advisory lock prevents simultaneous resets

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