Smaller Scheduled Batches Can Quietly Raise Event Budgets

A developer found that splitting a weekly company-directory refresh into smaller jobs increased costs even though the total row allowance stayed flat. Each run start is billed as a separate event, with the count depending on memory, so more batches mean more start fees. Platform usage is charged separately and cannot be priced by event rates alone. The article recommends restricting inputs to a bounded subset, explicitly disabling costly enrichment flags, and separating broad listing discovery from selective enrichment. It also advises using integer arithmetic for budget tracking.