Stripe achieved 99.99986% API uptime - just 44 seconds down all year
“a lot of, you know, infrastructure in order to make, MongoDB as fault tolerant and as distributed and as Mhmm.”
a lot of, you know, infrastructure in order to make, MongoDB as fault tolerant and as distributed and as Mhmm. Durable and as reliable and everything as we needed it to be and as it now is. Like we had, Stripe's critical API availability last year was 99.99986%, which is forty four seconds of unavailable unavailability through the whole year. Mhmm. Which is we we fit in. And others don't publish statistics that are kind of granular, but we believe that is the best in the industry. And so, so, you know, that everything that our storage team has built and many other teams, you know, it ended up really working there. But that that that was a quite important critical decision,
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Patrick Collison reveals Stripe's exceptional infrastructure reliability, sharing that their API was unavailable for only 44 seconds in an entire year. He discusses the significant engineering investment required to make MongoDB fault-tolerant and distributed enough to achieve what he believes is industry-leading uptime performance.
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